Neither the GWOT nor the current long competition with China had an equivalent to the Long Telegram. Mostly because we didn't have anyone with the depth of experience as George Kennan. The publication of the Long Telegram is facinating. Much of the information in the message was included in previous State Message traffic over the preding 12-18 months; however it was State disto only an somewhat suppressed at State. Kennan's former boss in Moscow helped another department (IIRC it was Treasury) craft the equivalent of a JSAP to EMB Moscow, so that Kennan could answer with tasker with the Long Telegram, and that it would be transmitted outside Foggy Bottom.
Neither the GWOT nor the current long competition with China had an equivalent to the Long Telegram. Mostly because we didn't have anyone with the depth of experience as George Kennan. The publication of the Long Telegram is facinating. Much of the information in the message was included in previous State Message traffic over the preding 12-18 months; however it was State disto only an somewhat suppressed at State. Kennan's former boss in Moscow helped another department (IIRC it was Treasury) craft the equivalent of a JSAP to EMB Moscow, so that Kennan could answer with tasker with the Long Telegram, and that it would be transmitted outside Foggy Bottom.