为了缓解美国军队面临的巨大压力，艾森豪威尔在就任总统后，特别提议招募来自苏东集团的逃亡者组建志愿自由队，在某种程度上代替美军执行对欧军事防卫的职责。为早日实现该设想，美国从国内和国际两方面展开了双重努力。然而，因冷战局势缓和的冲击，特别是受美国整体冷战战略转变的影响，再加之决策层人事变动干扰，组建志愿自由队的设想最终夭折，美国转而选择采取其他措施利用逃亡者来实现其冷战目的。通过分析志愿自由队这一"未成功实施"的案例，既向读者呈现了美国为赢得冷战所做的蓄意谋划，同时也部分展示了美苏冷战对抗的有限性。

In order to alleviate the great pressure of the U.S.military,shortly after his taking office,Eisenhower proposed to mobilize European escapees to establish "Volunteer Freedom Corps" to contribute to the common Europe defense.In order to achieve this objective,the Eisenhower administration did make efforts at home and abroad.However,because the Cold War tensions were reduced and the U.S.changed its Cold War strategies,and some personnel changes made negative influence,Eisenhower finally decided to abandon this initiative,and instead adopted other methods to use escapees to meet the demand of the Cold War.Through the analysis of VFC,this paper is to reveal how the U.S.made unremitting efforts to win the Cold War on the one hand and the limit of the Cold War confrontation on the other.