THE AMERICAN WAY OF STRATEGY

The purpose of American grand strategy is... to defend the American way of life by means that do not endanger the American way of life.

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External Threats: Empire and Anarchy

How to lose your liberty

• Caesarist Tyranny
• Tributary State
• Castle State
• Garrison State

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. - Eisenhower

Manifest Destiny and the Civil War

MONROE DOCTRINE

Cold War

Global Hegemony?

"As the symbol of the United States in its pursuit of global hegemony, the
bald eagle is less appropriate than the rooster, jealously guarding its pre-eminence in the barnyard pecking order."

Isolationism?

future Grand Strategy

• Concert of Powers (Primary)
• Offshore Balancer (Secondary)
• Blends Realism and Liberal Internationalism

"Economic interdependence, international cooperation, liberalism, and democracy are not causes of international peace; they are its results."