President Eisenhower's New Look Policy During The Cold War

During 1950, in an effort to reduce the military budget, President Eisenhower created the “New Look” Policy as a way to maintain security against the Soviet Union. He developed the “New Look” Military in order to intensify containment and deter the expansion of Communism. Although this was his intention, a closer examination shows that this policy during the Cold War was only successful in reducing military spending and did not contain the spread of Communism to other countries.
President Eisenhower urgently wanted to strengthen the containment policies laid out by George Kannan and the NSC-68. One of his main goals was to use the threat of nuclear retaliation to discourage Communism. During the Truman administration, the NSC-68 tripled