Policy for Victory

is a curious paradox that during the past few years, as American strategic policy has blundered and stumbled its way from one defeat to

other, American strategic literature has developed steadily and remarkably in depth and sophistication. No doubt it is true that the brute majority of the books in the field reflect, to a greater or less degree, the _utopianism of SANE or wishful thinking about Communism and/or the _UN. But a truly impressive corpus of serious and solid discussion of the problem of national survival in the realistic conditions of the war with Communism has been produced. Now three extremely important new contributions to this discussion have appeared. Two of them – The Necessity for Choice, by Henry A. Now three extremely important new contributions to this discussion have appeared. Two of them-The Necessity for Choice, by Henry A. Kissinger and

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Frank S. Meyer

Frank S. Meyer was a senior editor of National Review.

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is a curious paradox that during the past few years, as American strategic policy has blundered and stumbled its way from one defeat to

other, American strategic literature has developed steadily and remarkably in depth and sophistication. No doubt it is true that the brute majority of the books in the field reflect, to a greater or less degree, the _utopianism of SANE or wishful thinking about Communism and/or the _UN. But a truly impressive corpus of serious and solid discussion of the problem of national survival in the realistic conditions of the war with Communism has been produced. Now three extremely important new contributions to this discussion have appeared. Two of them – The Necessity for Choice, by Henry A. Now three extremely important new contributions to this discussion have appeared. Two of them-The Necessity for Choice, by Henry A. Kissinger and