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Has Military Superiority Made America Less Safe? (Book Review)
Alex Ward, VOX: How military superiority made America less safe
America’s dominance wasn’t by happenstance. It was a choice.
There’s a myth Americans tell themselves: After World War II, the United States had no choice but to be the world’s superpower and preeminent military force. No other countries were strong enough after years of fighting, and it was solely up to the US, by virtue of its position, to rebuild and reorder the world.
The reason that’s not true, says Stephen Wertheim, author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy, is because the US made a conscious decision to seek military dominance before World War II ended. Such a strategy, forged in the heat of battle, would help the US thwart totalitarian regimes — namely the Soviet Union in later years — while pursuing its own interests.
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WNU Editor: The leadership in Washington made the decision to be the world’s superpower and preeminent military force, and they have been pursuing it since the end of the Second World War. But does the average American want to run an empire? And has this status of being a world superpower made the U.S. more safe? This is a debate that sorely needs to be done. Unfortunately. I do not see such a debate happening in the near future.
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