This was not an easy sell in Washington or the US, which was eager to stand down, and hoped for the best for post war cooperation with Russia.
Stemming from the war time OSS, a core of people shifted concerns from defeated Germany to the clearly expansive Stalinist USSR. At the center of the American efforts was the CIA, which emerged in these years and existed mainly to fight the Cold War.Īnderson makes clear the improvisational nature of the early developments. The Quiet Americans examines the critical period at the end of World War II and just after, the time when the Soviets and Americans developed their strategic stances. Circular reasoning and self-interested saber rattling justified endless arms races and dubious wars. This seemingly unchanging and unchangeable struggle seemed inevitable, even if not easy to explain. For anyone who lived in the last third of the twentieth century, life was dominated by the Cold War, a global standoff between the US and Soviets.
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