The policy of containment is an example of A. strategic policy. B. crisis policy. C. structural defense policy. D. partisan defense policy. E....

The policy of containment was the main American foreign policy during the Cold War.  The main idea of this policy was that the US would try to prevent communism from spreading outside of where it already existed.  The US was not committed to trying to roll communism back, but simply did not want it to go any further.

From this, we can see that containment was a strategic policy.  A strategic policy can be defined as a country’s basic stance with regard to a given issue or a given major player in international relations.  This means that containment was a strategic policy.  It was the United States’ basic stance with regard to communism, which was the main issue in international relations during the Cold War.