<span>We the People of the United States, in Order
to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic
Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general
Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our
Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States. So yes the answer would be to provide a common defense. </span>
To help raise money, federal bonds were issued by the Government.
Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of independence.
Although the effectiveness of these tactics can be question, it was in "a Korea and Indochina" that the Eisenhower administration effectively use brinkmanship, since this was part of the Cold War.