Nixon Doctrine
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1. The "Nixon Doctrine" refers to the approach of President Nixon to foreign wars, a doctrine which grew out of the disaster of the Vietnam War. The latter war had shown the limitations of the nation in Third World conflicts, as well as the reluctance of the American people and Congress to fight such wars in which the cause was uncertain in the face of mounting risks and losses. Nixon fashioned the doctrine which held that American involvement in such wars in the future would be limited: "The United States would use small nations as surrogates [and] . . . provide the arms, advisers and financing for other countries to wage guerilla or conventional wars against domestic insurgents of foreign enemies" (Schulzinger 291). In other words, the Nixon Doctrine was an attempt to continue to struggle against communism in Third World venues without the kind of risk to Americans which marked Vietnam. Schulzinger argues that this doctrine certainly did not reduce American contributions to the violence of such conflicts, especially in the area of arms sales: "While fewer Americans fought wars, the level of violence rose" (291). In addition, Nixon did not apply the doctrine to Vietnam itself, precisely where it was needed the most, choosing instead to carpetbomb the North at the same time he proclaimed his Doctrine. After Nixon, Carter undermined the Nixon Doctrine by cracking down on the same regimes Nixon had designated as American surrogates in the Third World conflicts against comm
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bled, even China slowly but surely is letting down its guard to the rest of the world economically and politically, but still North Korea poses a threat to international security. The leadership of North Korea clings to ideology which the rest of the communist world has rejected as unworkable and inhumane, and the possibility of some outbreak of violence between he North and South is always present in such circumstances. Because of the secretive nature of the leaders of the North, their intentions are unknown, adding to lingering fears about the future. The division of North and South Korea seems an anomaly in a world in which such barriers within and between nations are generally breaking down, accelerated by the end of the Cold War. The partition seems a vestige, if a dangerous vestige, of that Cold War.
4. The "Truman Doctrine," born in 1947, grew out of the emerging Cold War and the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union over which nation would control the destinies of other nations. The specific crisis which led to the Doctrine had to do with the support of Greece and Turkey and those nations' fight against left-wing forces. The British, economically strapped, had withdrawn support. The United States, unde
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