Few today recall that America’s winning Cold War strategy against the Soviet Union was centered on a strategic framework much bigger than just military might and yet underpinned all statecraft and ...

George Kennan is considered a singular figure in U.S. diplomatic history. In a life that spanned 101 years—from the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt to that of George W. Bush—he won the Pulitzer and ...

John Lukacs calls “George Kennan: A Study of Character” (Yale University Press, 224 pages, $26) a “biographical study,” noting that a full-fledged biography has yet to be written. Mr. Lukacs ranks ...

George Kennan and Henry Kissinger had much in common. They served their country as diplomats and policy formulators — Kennan as a foreign service officer and director of the State Department’s policy ...

Nominated last week by President Truman to replace Admiral Alan G. Kirk as U.S. Ambassador to Moscow: George Frost Kennan. Family Background: Born Feb. 16, 1904, in Milwaukee, of Scotch-Irish parents.

In 1946, George Kennan, the U.S. Charge D’Affaires in Moscow, sent an 8,000 word telegram to the State Department warning of Joseph Stalin’s aggressive foreign policy. The following year, writing ...

George Frost Kennan, who died last week in Princeton, N.J., at 101, was an insecure outsider from Milwaukee, Wis., who was embraced, in ways that sometimes made him squirm, by the clubby coterie of ...

Both George Kennan '25 — the diplomat whose containment strategy guided the U.S. through the Cold War — and Yale University diplomatic historian John Lewis Gaddis are known for their tough-minded ...

George Kennan, the remarkable U.S. diplomat and probing observer of international relations, is famous for forecasting the collapse of the Soviet Union. Less well known is his warning in 1948 that no ...

1946 sees the world teetering on the brink of a new global conflict. George Kennan’s long telegram outlines Moscow’s fanatical drive against the capitalist West, while our panel covers escalating ...

In this century George Kennan is best remembered, if at all, for “A Fateful Error,” the short essay he published on the op-ed page of the New York Times in February 1997. He argued that expanding NATO ...