TY - BOOK AU - MILLEN Raymond TI - Eisenhower and US grand strategy PY - 2014/// KW - UNITED STATES KW - PRESIDENT KW - DEFENCE STRATEGY KW - INTERNATIONAL SECURITY N2 - Dwight D. Eisenhower infused deliberate planning processes into US grand strategy. Due to lack of consensus regarding how to address the Soviet threat, Eisenhower directed the formation of a six-week exercise (Solarium) to study three alternative strategies. Upon completion of the exercise, the National Security Council crafted the Basic National Security Policy over a period of three months, reviewing it annually and revising it as the international security environment changed ER -