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George Kennan

Diplomat / Historian · American · 20th c.

American diplomat and historian (1904–2005). As the designer of "containment policy" he formulated a Cold War strategy to restrain Soviet expansion. In his later years he sharply criticised the military misuse of that policy and warned against NATO expansion. Writing extensively into his 90s, he remained the most influential American diplomatic thinker of the 20th century — a remarkable intellectual life of over a century.