What is more provocative, he shows that key U.S. Steil, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, argues that although the Marshall Plan was a strategic success, it also contributed mightily to the evolving Cold War. These are the themes of Benn Steil’s well-crafted new book, The Marshall Plan : Dawn of the Cold War, which puts the initiative in grand strategic perspective. That, in turn, led to the establishment of NATO and the division of Europe. By spurring the economic revival of the western occupation zones in Germany and their eventual merger into the country of West Germany, it rekindled fears across the continent, east and west, about the specter of renewed German power. But what is often forgotten is that the Marshall Plan also ratcheted up Cold War tensions. In France, Italy, the United Kingdom, West Germany, and beyond, the plan’s $13 billion in aid expedited economic recovery, buoyed morale, and eroded the appeal of communism. foreign policy program of the Cold War, and arguably the most successful in all of U.S. The Marshall Plan was the most successful U.S.
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