In The American Way of Strategy, Lind argues that the goal of U.S. foreign policy has always been the preservation of the American way of life--embodied in civilian government, checks and balances, a commercial economy, and individual freedom. Lind describes how successive American statesmen--from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton to Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan--have pursued an American way of strategy that minimizes the dangers of empire and anarchy by two means: liberal internationalism and realism. At its best, the American way of strategy is a well-thought-out and practical guide designed to preserve a peaceful and demilitarized world by preventing an international system dominated by imperial and militarist states and its disruption by anarchy. When American leaders have followed this path, they have led our nation from success to success, and when they have deviated from it, the results have been disastrous. Framed in an engaging historical narrative, the book makes an important contribution to contemporary debates. The American Way of Strategy is certain to change the way that Americans understand U.S. foreign policy.
After McClellan was removed as Commanding General of the Army in March , 1862 , and until Halleck took up that post in July , Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton personally directed the armies . They conceived and supervised ...
The author offers a detailed comparison between the character of irregular warfare, insurgency in particular, and the principal enduring features of "the American way." He concludes that there is a...
This is a story not of simple corruption but of the unexpected origins of a more subtle and, in many ways, more worrisome disfiguring of our political system and society.
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... or general, Pericles linked the capabilities of their military to the constitution of their states.3 Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Julian Corbett drew a distinction between the German or “continental” and ...
the countryside, and created conditions conducive to the cessation of the civil war. ... 1996); William Greider, One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997); and Thomas L. Friedman, ...
This book unites the legacies of teachers such as Sun Tzu (The Art of War),Miyamoto Musashi (The Book of Five Rings), Niccol Machiavelli (The Prince and The Art of War), Carl von Clausewitz (On War), and others.
This book explores the cultural history and future prospects of the so-callednew American way of war.
47 LeoGrande, Our Own Backyard, 12. 48 Incidentally, a rebellion seriously hobbled due to deep anti-Americanism generated by earlier 'Yanqui' imperialist meddling. 49 Boot, The Savage Wars of Peace, 40. 50 Boot, The Savage Wars of Peace ...
In this important book, Hal Brands explains why grand strategy is a concept that is so alluring—and so elusive—to those who make American statecraft.