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The Strategy That Won the Cold War—and Why It Still Matters
Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images).

The Strategy That Won the Cold War—and Why It Still Matters

The architects of the victory over the Soviet Union understood the nature of competition.
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Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images).

Editor’s Note: The United States and China are firmly locked in a cold war struggle whose outcome will be the most important determinant of peace, prosperity, and quality of life in international politics over the next decade. This article is the second in a series that will propose a strategy for the United States to conduct and win this conflict, based on lessons from the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

Steven Weber is a partner at Breakwater Strategy, an advisory firm based in Washington, D.C, and a professor of the Graduate School at University of California-Berkeley.

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