Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“An especially damaging development in the history of U.S. foreign policy was President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s promulgation of the domino theory. Adoption of its assumptions led directly to America’s disastrous military intervention in Vietnam. Although the simplistic doctrine was widely ridiculed after the Vietnam debacle, it has continued to have its adherents. Worse, the domino theory has seemed to make a full comeback with respect to Washington’s current attitudes toward both Russia and the People’s Republic of China (PRC).” (05/09/23)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2023/05/08/the-zombie-domino-theory-returns/