George F. Kennan Quote

Quote from George F. Kennan,

"Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy."

By:	George F. Kennan (more quotes by George F. Kennan or books by/about George F. Kennan)
	(1904-2005) US advisor, diplomat, political analyst, and Pulitzer-prize winning historian, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study and former US Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Date:	1987
Categories:	Economics, Government, Military, Socialism, War
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