Answer:
He wanted to keep many choices avaliable rather that to resort to millitary force(s) first.
Explanation:
This being that from the passage, you could tell that Kennedy was trying to keep a balance to society and trying not to use force.
The sentences with this evidence would be as provided:
"Kennedy belived in retaining a choice, not a choice between red, or dead, or holocaust, or humilliation, but a variety of millitary options in the event of aggression."
"A balance approach to every crisis which combined both defenses and diplomacy"
From these sentences, it is being said that Kennedy did not want to use violence as an alternative to change things, and wanted to use better methods for better results.
