Editing Rollback (section)

==Terminology==
The term ''rollback'' was popularized in the 1940s and the 1950s, but the term is much older. Some Britons, opposed to Russian oppression against [[Poland]], proposed in 1835 a coalition that would be "united to roll back into its congenial steppes and deserts the tide of Russian barbarism."<ref>{{cite book|title=The British and Foreign Review Or European Quarterly Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aP9SAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA53|year=1835|pages=52–53}}</ref> Scottish novelist and military historian [[John Buchan]] in 1915 wrote of the [[American Indian Wars]], "I cast back to my memory of the tales of Indian war, and could not believe but that the white man, if warned and armed, would rollback &#91;sic&#93; the [[Cherokee]]s."<ref>{{cite book|author=John Buchan|title=Salute to Adventurers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wLrgrQzGl6EC&pg=PA166|page=166|isbn=9780755117154|date=25 January 2011|publisher=House of Stratus }}</ref> More recently, [[John Mearsheimer]] was significant in popularizing the term.<ref name=":Wang">{{Cite book |last=Wang |first=Frances Yaping |title=The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2024 |isbn=9780197757512 |pages=24}}</ref>