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the American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and Life
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the American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and Life
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the American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and Life
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, Lind argues that the goal of U.S. foreign policy has always been the preservation of the American way of lifeembodied in civilian government, checks and balances, a commercial economy, and individual freedom. Lind describes how successive American statesmenfrom George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton to Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reaganhave 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.
is certain to change the way that Americans understand U.S. foreign policy.