After Polarity in International Relataions

... alone a monolith micromanaged by the Kremlin. Over time, this came to be at least partly understand by at least part of the U.S. foreign policy establishment. Occasionally, pragmatism would break through ideological blinders, as it did in the Orwellian ... ... policy making astray, confusion of ideology and military threat fostered detachment of foreign policy thinking from reality. When von Clausewitz wrote about war as a "continuation of policy by other means," it was possible to make hard-nosed assessments ...