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Flexible response
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Flexible response
Flexible response
was a
defense
strategy
implemented by
John F. Kennedy
in 1961 to address the Kennedy administration's skepticism of
Dwight Eisenhower
's
New Look
and its policy of
Massive Retaliation
. Flexible response calls for
mutual deterrence
at strategic, tactical, and conventional levels, giving the
United States
the capability to respond to aggression across the spectrum of warfare, not limited only to
nuclear arms
.
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