The Flexible response was a policy implemented by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 in order to substitute the New Look and the massive retaliation policy that Dwight Eisenhower's had introduced, which consisted on responding using a greater force in case of an attack, and such force involved nuclear weapons.
On the other hand, the flexible response policy aknowledges the Mutual assured destruction if nuclear weapons are involved, as the enemy with shoot back too. It aimed to provide a manner of responding to agression across the spectrum of war but without the employment of nuclear weapons.
One main reason that Thomas Paine thinks the colonies stand a good chance against the British is because there is so much land and so many resources available to them, and the British only occupy a small island.
Theodore Roosevelt inherited an empire-in-the-making when he assumed office in 1901. After the Spanish-American War.
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The war that happened. I'm sure that is the answer
