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flexible response

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
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flexible response

Summary

flexible response is a strategy[1]. It draws 143 Wikipedia views per month (strategy category, ranking #13 of 37).[2]

Key Facts

  • flexible response's instance of is recorded as strategy[3].
  • flexible response's instance of is recorded as military tactics[4].
  • flexible response's GND ID is recorded as 4154618-0[5].
  • flexible response's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/064bt_[6].
  • flexible response's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Flexible-Response[7].
  • flexible response's different from is recorded as McNamara Doctrine[8].
  • flexible response's UK Parliament thesaurus ID is recorded as 10293[9].
  • flexible response's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777837046[10].
  • flexible response's Lex ID is recorded as flexible_response[11].
  • flexible response's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 136678[12].

Why It Matters

flexible response draws 143 Wikipedia views per month (strategy category, ranking #13 of 37).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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