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This paper compares and contrasts the US National Security Strategy (NSS) 2002 with the National Security Council Report 68 (NSC-68) issued in 1950 during the Truman presidency. The authors trace three threads linking NSC-68 to NSS 2002: the rhetoric in the texts of the strategy documents themselves; the institutional practices deployed to install, legitimatize and implement each strategy; and the identity of the key players involved in the various campaigns undertaken to execute the respective blueprints.