Category Archives: Week 2: Cold War Origins

I think that Christian Appy is arguing about how the working class during the Vietnam War was not getting the right respect since they came from low-income families or poor communities that wanted to show that different people from different backgrounds show have the right to have an equal say in the army and equalContinue reading “Why does Christian Appy argue that Vietnam was working-class?”

Under the banner of national security and patriotism, the “lavender scare” was an extension of the “red scare” as both sought to purge those seen as “morally corrupt,” “psychologically immature,” and a threat to national security (Friedman). While the Red Scare was a moral panic created by Sen. Joseph McCarthy in response to the perceivedContinue reading “Communists, Homosexuals, and Sexual Gossip: The Smearing of Sen. Joseph McCarthy”

Following World War II, the US adopted a new, blatantly undemocratic form of government: the national security state. The article “Cultures of Secrecy” explains the national security state and its culture of secrecy. The “national security state” is the government agency tasked with protecting the American people from threats to their safety and well-being duringContinue reading “The National Security State: Secrecy, Mistrust, and the Lasting Impact of Cold War Policies”

The national security state is a governmental framework that strongly prioritizes national defense and security. During the Cold War and the subsequent “War on Terror,” the United States began to place an especially strong emphasis on gathering intelligence, expanding military operations, and employing surveillance—all in the name of protecting the nation from perceived threats. TheseContinue reading “Secrecy in the Name of Security”

The national security state is when secret bureaucracies within a government go after both real and perceived threats on the basis of protecting the nation’s security from external and internal threats. This ‘protection’ of the nations security within the United States (US) led to mass loyalty checks toward members of the public such as figuresContinue reading “Is National Security about the people or the government?”

The “national security state” is the government body that tasked itself with protecting the American people from threats to their well-being and safety during the Cold War. Their objective, while it sounds positive, encouraged such a sense of fear and tension that secrecy was a natural consequence among government agents and civilians. Fox gets toContinue reading “Sheep or Man: they wish it was impossible to say which was which”

The national security state and a culture of secrecy are demonstrated in the Dean article “Cultures of Secrecy.” During the Cold War, there was belief that secret communists and foreign threats lived amongst Americans. This is seen in Joe McCarthy’s assertions that the State Department had been infiltrated by communists. Thus, the national security stateContinue reading “Week 1 Blog Post”

The cold war  I think that national security in rural states like Nevada and Utah during the Cold War was a way that we could introduce the cultures of security so that people don’t have to worry about what might happen next. I think that rural states like Nevada and Utah had their way withContinue reading “The Cold War”

After the end of World War II, the United States entered into a new, definitively undemocratic model of government: the national security state. The national security state is the rise in secretive “national security” bureaucracies that aid the executive branch in pinpointing actual or potential enemies, and designing private, covert plots and campaigns against thoseContinue reading ““Never Seen Anything Like It Before”: Sheep-Farmer’s and the National Security State”