SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL FACTORS AFFECTING AREA STRATEGIC (Sanitized)CONCEPTS FOR THE COLD WAR

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• Publication Date: March 6, 1952
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MalORANDUM FORI ADPC
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1 DIvision Summary of Principal a
Strategic Concepts for the Cold War
T.S. 66360, Memorandum for All Division Chiefs, 20 Feb. l952
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global strategy.
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11 Assumptions
The Kremlin, d.thout recourse to general r for t
will carry out an unrelenting expansion of the Cold war
gain world-wide Communist domination.
III General Discuesions
1. The above aseunption is of particular significance to the fl
Division. For the past five years the cold war in the Far Bast has been,
in reality, a hot vim On 19 December 1946, the Communist-led Viet Minh
commenced hostilities with the French Union Forces in Indochina. On
26 June 1950, the North Korean Peoples Republic began its aggression against
the Republic of Korea. And during this same period, the Peoples Liberation
Army completed the Communist conquest of mainland China. Since the proclama
tion of the Peoples Republic in China, 1 October 1949, the Chinese Communists
have carried out an aggressive internal campaign to solidify control and
eliminate resistance elements; they have *volunteered" in support of the
North Korean aggression; they have supplied the Viet Minh armies in Indochina
with material and technical assistance; they have poised their troops on
the borders of Indochina and Burma. In addition to this, Communist-led
insurgent groups have been active in Malaya and the Philippines. Therefore,
althowli it may be assumed that the Kremlin may refrain from general war,
these facts show that during the next five years the Communist global
strategy in the Far East is to continue to pursue the same militant
expansionism which has been pursued for the past five years.
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