| ID | 138598 |
| Title Proper | Threatlessness and US grand strategy |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Fettweis, Christopher J |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | As the Soviet Union was in the process of collapsing, Georgi Arbatov sent a letter to the New York Times that contained a warning for the United States. Arbatov, who was one of the Kremlin’s leading ‘Amerikanists’, wrote that the Soviets were unleashing a ‘secret weapon’, one ‘that will work almost regardless of the American response’. It was not the stuff of Cold War
nightmares, some sort of last-minute deus ex machina from the Academy of Sciences that would rescue the Soviet Union from oblivion. No, in this instance, the weapon was psychological and unequivocal: the Kremlin was about to deprive America of the Enemy. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 56, No.5; Oct/Nov 2014: p.43-68 |
| Journal Source | Surviva Vol: 56 No 5 |
| Key Words | NATO ; Terrorism ; proliferation ; Rogue States ; Post - Cold War Era ; US Grand Strategy ; ISIS ; Soviet Union ; Threatlessness ; US Strategic Community ; Rise of New Terrors |