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Over time, things wear out. Cars, cell phones, hips, knees and other low joints often need replacement. That process applies to words too. For about seven decades, a common American strategic lexicon has persisted. Containment, a product of the early Cold War, deterrence and its cousin MAD for mutual assured destruction, defense, and the whole family of proliferation — including non-, counter- and anti- — were central to this strategic dictionary. But are they still relevant? Containment was meant to keep the Soviet Union from expanding west beyond its borders and those of its satellite states comprising the Warsaw Pact....
