Talk:New Look (policy)

B-47 photo

This is one mangy looking airplane - surely their must be a better picture available that shows a B-47 in better preserved condition or, better yet, in service during the period being discussed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.61.141 (talk) 19:49, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Dien Bien Phu??!?

This line here is utterly unsupported, frankly the section should be taken out pending a re-write:

"The refusal of the United States to act to prevent the defeat of France by the Communist-led Viet Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, just four months after the Dulles speech, was proof that a situation of "mutual deterrence" had developed with the Soviet Union in which the use of strategic nuclear weapons for any purpose other than to respond to a direct attack on one's homeland or on one's major allies was out of the question"

It's facile to make this conclusion. The French were engaged in a colonial war -- really a war of reconquest of Indochina, control of which had been lost during WW2 -- and while the U.S. may not have wanted its ally to be defeated, the amount of effort it was willing to expend to prop up the French was minimal. The USA didn't even deploy conventional forces under its own flag to save the French forces in Indochina, let alone nuclear weapons. Considering this was a mere three years after massive military power was deployed to Korea (and two years before military units were deployed to Lebanon) the message here is that Ike didn't want to throw good money after bad, not that massive retaliation had its limits 68.43.0.152 (talk) 21:07, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

University History Assignment - A heads up

Hi,

I am doing an assignment for my History course at the University of Sheffield which involves editing a wikipedia page and writing about the experience of editing and using wikipedia as a historical source, and I thought i'd give a heads up to anyone concerned before I start looking at any edits I want to make.

The New Look Policy came up in lectures and I have noticed that this page is not necessarily as fleshed out as it could be and that the sources used are limited. I hope to improve this by adding support from more recent scholarship. I have also noticed that the recent suggestion for change regarding the lack of evidence in the section on U.S. support of the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu has gone unedited, and I will attempt to redress that section after I research further.

I am open to suggestions and discussion around any edits that I do make, and if I intend to change a large portion of text or add a new section I will try and remember to give a heads up prior to doing so if I think it necessary to.

Thanks,

Ben

Addition: apologies, the edit to the section under "New" new look redrafting the identified problematic section by 143.167.202.23 was me, I just forgot to log in. Please let me know if there's any issues in that edit, thanks.

BArnold-99 (talk) 16:10, 15 January 2020 (UTC)