NSC-68, COPY No. 1 (pdf) -> http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/coldwar/documents/pdf/10-1.pdf
NSC-68, COPY No. 26 (pdf) -> http://info.publicintelligence.net/US-NSC-68.pdf
The Maoist-led revolution in China in 1949 triggering an intense study by the U.S. State Department culminated in National Security Council Directive 68 (NSC-68) being presented to President Truman on April 16, 1950.
Although it was not signed until September 30, 1950 (as NSC-68/2), that document’s master plan for the containment of those breaks for economic freedom, actually only an affirmation and expansion of the top secret policies of 1947, NSC-4, NSC-4A, NSC-10/2, and others, officially became America’s secret policy of covert and overt financial, economic, political, and military, warfare.[1] The origin of this imperial Grand Strategy originated early in WW II (Google for, imperial, Grand Strategy, John Ikenberry).
Although the world was theoretically at peace, this directive called for increasing the U.S. arms budget by 350%, $13.5 billion to $46.5 billion. This was just under the $300 billion annual budget, measured in 1990 dollars, with which the United States fought the Cold War. U.S. economic and military power was being mustered to control the collapsed power structures of the former colonial empires and suppress those emerging nations’ breaks for economic freedom.[2]
While admitting there was no military threat to the West, Dean Acheson’s memoir, Present at the Creation, unwittingly exposed NSC-68 as the master plan for the Cold War.
It was a Grand Strategy for increasing the military budget of the United States by 350% to wage a worldwide covert war, or overt when necessary—Korea, Vietnam, the two Gulf Wars, the containment of Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, and the destabilization and fragmentation of Yugoslavia—so as to suppress the rising tide of social and economic revolutions which were intent on breaking the dependency imposed upon them and turning their resources to the care of their own people. [x]
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