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This 4 page paper examines the forces shaping national security and the changes that occurred during this critical period in American history. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Security Act. The reorganization that occurred with the creation of the Department of Defense resulted in a centralized administrative system (Blum, 2003). This was believed to be paramount
to unifying the armed services so that they could more effectively respond to external threats to our countrys security. We were now living in the atomic age and Eisenhower
and his administration believed that in order to do that effectively we had to have a unified military (Bose, 1998). Russia, or more particularly the threat of communism, was
considered a potential threat, a threat that was growing over time. After World War II Russia expanded her sphere of influence to include all the eastern European countries and
installed a Communist form of government which was to be controlled from Moscow (Wallbank, Taylor and Bailkey, 1967). Eisenhower implemented a policy of containment to keep communism from spreading
to the world as a whole (Stern, 2000). The US government determined to use its allies throughout the developed world (i.e., Western Europe) to contain the threat of the
spread of Communism. Antithetical as communism was to every facet of democracy, the US was committed to containing communism to no more area than it already occupied. The
result was a greater and greater polarization between Russia and the US. By the time Kennedy took office the bipolarity was well established and would only continue to grow
over the years. The so-called Cold War had begun. In the 1960s we took our newly recognized role in world politics quite seriously. We took even more
seriously, however, our responsibility to protect our own borders. When the threat of USSR missiles became eminent to the U.S. the immediately installed a naval blockade of Cuba (Kennedy,
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