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The American Way of Strategy
Michael Lind
Oxford University Press
October 2006
On Sale: October 2, 2006
304 pages
ISBN: 0195308379
EAN: 9780195308372
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Americans are unlikely to lose their cherished rights
because of a military coup or a foreign conquest, writes
Michael Lind. The more plausible and frightening scenario is
one in which foreign danger forces Americans themselves to
jettison their way of life, sacrificing liberty to ensure
security. To prevent this scenario from happening is the
real purpose of American strategy. 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 lead
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.
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