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Gaddis, John Lewis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War. 2004. ISBN 978-0-19-517447-2

Hopkins, Michael F. "Continuing Debate And New Approaches In Cold War History," Historical Journal (2007), 50: 913-934

Kennan, George F., American Diplomacy, The University of Chicago Press. 1984. ISBN 0-226-43147-9

Wright, Steven. The United States and Persian Gulf Security: The Foundations of the War on Terror, Ithaca Press, 2007 ISBN 978-0-86372-321-6

EDSITEment's Lesson Strategy of Containment 1947-1948