New Look (politics)
The New Look is a foreign policy concept of the Eisenhower government , which was developed in 1953 by John Foster Dulles and introduced in 1954. It was the answer to the policy of containment of Harry S. Truman and according to the new NATO - Strategy - Massive retaliation . Conventional weapons and soldiers should be exchanged for more nuclear weapons in order to reduce the cost of the defense budget.
General Maxwell D. Taylor resigned as Chief of Staff of the Army in protest against the New Look. He became a special military advisor under Kennedy.