One thing about Eisenhower I liked, though, was his preference for the nuclear threat over McNamarian graduated pressure. Not that I like brinksmanship, but you can rely on both sides not wanting nuclear war. Going the other way and wiping out our strategic air command and IRBM advantage in favor of mutually assured destruction and limited wars is what sucked us into the war nobody wanted in Vietnam. Ike, contrarywise, got us out of Korea.
Not that I enjoy talking grand strategy. I’d much prefer us not being world police and minding our own business.
I think we’re in complete agreement on not being the world police and minding our own business!!