THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
JOHN F KENNEDY AND THE COLD WAR
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To enable the United States to fight limited wars around the world
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To decrease the number of nuclear weapons
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To prepare for the Bay of Pigs invasion
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To reduce defense spending
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Detailed explanation-1: -The strategy had the effect of increasing the credibility of the U.S. military, because it was able to leverage an appropriate proportional response to different kinds of crises (which would deter an enemy’s appetite for smaller, limited wars), while also reassuring allied countries.
Detailed explanation-2: -This meant being able to fight multiple wars simultaneously; specifically, the US should have the peacetime capability to fight two large regional wars and a small brushfire war at the same time. The consequence of this was to increase recruiting, investment, and research for the US force posture.
Detailed explanation-3: -The existing strategy of flexible response adopted officially by NATO in 1967 was a compromise between American demands for a full conventional defense-in effect, a no-first-use policy–and European unwillingness not only to meet the cost but to accept the possibility of a prolonged period of conventional war.
Detailed explanation-4: -Massive retaliation, also known as a massive response or massive deterrence, is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.