
How Henry Kissinger Helped Shape the Cold War World
The next weeks will be filled with remembrances, fulsome appreciations, and harsh criticism of Henry Alfred Kissinger, who died Wednesday at 100. His prominence is well deserved. The only modern Secretaries of State who rank with him are George C. Marshall and Dean Acheson, who constructed the architecture of Cold War containment in the late 1940s.
Kissinger’s central achievement was updating that architecture to include China, less as an American ally than as a Russian adversary. Until the lat
Kissinger’s central achievement was updating that architecture to include China, less as an American ally than as a Russian adversary. Until the lat