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One of those myths is championed by Fredrik Logevall in Choosing War . That's the idea of "missed opportunities" for a peace settlement before the American buildup in 1965.
The nuclear freeze movement undermined support for an aggressive military buildup by emphasizing the cost and riskiness of the Cold War.
The buildup: weeks of media hype by the "Seinfeld industrial complex."
Though the buildup is sharply amusing in retrospect, it has succeeded in making Pat's return to television an event.
If credibility were such a fragile commodity, we wouldn't have needed the Reagan buildup after the Russians blinked during the Cuban Missile Crisis, or in 1973 when they made noises about helping the Arabs in the Yom Kippur war and then backed down.