George F. Kennan was an American historian and diplomat. He was one of ‘The Wise Men,’ of the group of American foreign policy elders. He strongly advocated the policy of ‘containment’ adopted by the United State to stop the spread of Soviet influence after the ‘Second World War.’ George was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and later went to Germany to complete his school education. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history from ‘Princeton University’ and began working in the United States Foreign Service, in Switzerland during the late 1920s. Following the end of the ‘Second World War,’ he wrote an article ‘Long Telegram,’ while working in Moscow, which pointed out that the Soviet regime was expansionist in nature and that it must be stopped. His writings inspired the ‘Truman Doctrine’ and also the ‘containment’ policy, which was used during the ‘Cold War.’ During the ‘Cold War,’ he was the main architect of the U.S. policy aimed at tackling the growing influence of the Soviet Russia, including the ‘Marshall Plan.’ He was, however, a long term critic of the U.S. foreign policy. From 1965 until his death in 2005, he was a faculty member of the ‘Institute for Advanced Study,’ New Jersey.