Kirk as U.S. Ambassador to Moscow: George Frost Kennan. Family Background: Born Feb. 16, 1904, in Milwaukee, of Scotch-Irish parents. His great-uncle, George Kennan, traveled by dog sled 5,000 ...

Almost alone among the so-called Wise Men of the U.S. foreign policy establishment of the early Cold War years, George F. Kennan had the wisdom to imagine an alternative future to the perpetually ...

More enduring than all the insights George F. Kennan provided in his seminal essay “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” was one word: containment. This term organized U.S. thought during the ...

The George F. Kennan Chair in Russian and Eurasian Studies stands as a tribute to Kennan’s notable contributions as a leading scholar and statesman. The end of the Cold War unleashed a host of ...

"Following the logic of our present policy in Vietnam, it is difficult to conceive to date of an outcome that would be less than disastrous," foreign policy expert George F. Kennan said yesterday.