nnan thought that the United States should use its power to force the Soviet Union to moderate its behavior and accept the American concept of how the world should be structured and operate.6 Kennan also advocated that American foreign policy should be formulated and implemented by a small, self selected political elite that both could and would circumvent the Congress in such efforts.7
The views of these three individuals Niebuhr, Williams, and Kennan on the conduct of American foreign policy provide the general framework within which American foreign policy was __________
6George Frost Kennan, American Diplomacy 1900 1950 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), 141.
7George Frost Kennan, American Diplomacy, Expanded Ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), p. 170.applied in the Korean War. This examination, thus, provides both a critique of the policies advocated by Niebuhr, Williams, and Kennan, and an appraisal of American foreign policy associated with the Korean War.
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