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Cold War historiography has been through several recognizable stages over the last five decades, & the increasing interest over the last few years in cultural themes has added an important extra dimension to this. Yet, the focus on 'culture' has rarely gone beyond studies of government support for particular cultural events & programs. Rarely have historical studies attempted to address the issue that such political uses of culture were part of an overall ideological offensive in both the East & the West. Recognition that the foreign policy of the Soviet Union was ideologically driven is one thing, but historians have generally avoided a similar posture regarding the US. Yet without sufficient attention as to how the US government attempted to mobilize & utilize all areas of social activity for the greater good of confronting the Soviet Union, there can be no satisfactory understanding of what the Cold War really involved. In addition, this 'ideological impulse' has not disappeared with the end of the Cold War, as the reaction of the US to the events of 11 September 2001 has demonstrated. Adapted from the source document.