The Origins of U.S. Global Domination

The United States Military didn't always have such an dominantly menacing global presence combined with tremendous influence on global affairs.  Following five months of hearings on the “Communist menace in Hollywood,” Congress consequently passed The National SecurityAct in July 1947 to create an even greater and ominous military establishment in the United States.  The act created the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Central Intelligence Agency, among many others. (1) 

The Cold War was beginning to take shape; U.S. diplomat George Keenan’s “Long Telegram” and Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Novikov “Report of 1946” also directly influenced the National Security Act as a harbinger of The Cold War, and later in the 1947 Truman Doctrine. (2)  Kennan’s telegram introduced the policy of containment to combat Russian aggression by which the National Security Act implemented through its multiple layers of defense. Novikov’s report describes the changing global landscape of United States military domination. The following year President Truman presented his doctrine in front of Congress and pledged to pursue economic and military sanctions against any country abiding by communist ideology; these aggressive policies endured and the Cold War lasted for over 40 years.          

 

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(1) Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, The Untold History of the United States (New York: Gallery Books 2012), 212.

(2) Robert Griffith and Paula Baker, ed, Major Problems in American History Since 1945 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007), 
36-49).

(3) AZ Lyrics Website, Midnight Oil Lyrics "US Forces, "http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/midnightoil/usforces.htm