Cold War mentality of permanent mobilization set in before the Cold War began.

Evidence

In this way, the mentality of the Cold War started to take hold long before the Cold War had even begun. After World War II, the result was a machinery of war centered on an expanding national security bureaucracy and a perpetually mobilized military patrolling the globe. That the country needed a large collection of bases and hundreds of thousands of troops constantly stationed overseas, as close as possible to any potential enemies, was central to this “forward posture.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 92

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: Builds on paragraph 91’s ‘total defense’ doctrine; the Cold War mentality predates the conflict itself.

Related

• Cold War basing mentality predated the actual Cold War (similarity 0.95)
• The global base system stems from pre-WWII total-defense thinking (similarity 0.80)
• Roosevelt’s ‘total defense’ doctrine redefined national security to require worldwide vigilance. (similarity 0.78)