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Yes, he admits, China is growing in strength, but US dominance is still overwhelming;American military might can still “make right” against any challenger.
But he is surely right to observe that no other power is threatening to usurp America’s role as the world’s military policeman.
In Europe after World War II, Pax Americana, guaranteed by US military power, was designed “to keep the Russians out and Germany down.”
Old-fashioned military dominance is no longer adequate to promote American interests.
The notion promoted by Romney and his boosters that only US military power can preserve world order is deeply reactionary.
Promising “clean government” and “law and order,” and casting himself as the champion of the military and police, he has the credentials to lead an authoritarian backlash.
Bolsonaro has repeatedly supported the military dictatorship that reigned from 1964 to 1985, when the government tortured and murdered its opponents.
Russia’s new draft budget, with its skyrocketing military outlays, along with paranoid talk of “fifth columns” and “national traitors,” attests to this trend.
Russia’s expulsion from the G-8 and renewed military build-ups are only the first of many such changes.
On February 26, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu formally announced his government’s plan to expand its overseas military presence.
Instead, targeted economic sanctions and calibrated military measures should be coupled with intensive and open political dialogue.
The second is to launch a preventive military strike aimed at destroying critical parts of the Iranian program and setting back its progress by an estimated two or more years.
The compromise that Iranian officials are suggesting is nowhere near what they would have to accept to avert military action and gain an easing of sanctions.
It went on to defeat Manchu-ruled China and Czarist Russia in two separate wars, making it Asia’s first modern global military power.
Chinese military spending now equals the combined defense expenditure of France, Japan, and the UK; just a decade ago, pacifist Japan outspent China on defense.
In the strategically vital South China Sea, the People’s Republic has built artificial islands and military outposts, and it has captured the disputed Scarborough Shoal from the Philippines.
Would Japan need to become a truly independent military power, with formidable deterrent capabilities like those of the UK or France?
As a status quo power, Japan does not need to match Chinese military might.
But an equally fundamental division – one that has contributed as much to the ongoing insurrection as sectarian strife and opposition to the American-led military occupation – is the widening gap between Iraq’s rich and poor.
And the US-China relationship has deteriorated, with America seeking to manage China’s rise strategically – for example, through regional trade agreements and an enhanced military presence in Asia.
The General and his monetary guru, Jacques Rueff, argued that the US used the dollar's status as the major reserve currency of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange-rate regime in order to run deficits and pay for its overseas military adventurism (at that time in Vietnam).
It is inconceivable that the US could have maintained forever the unipolar dominance of the early post-Cold War years, when it accounted for close to 30% of global GDP and half of the world’s military expenditure.
The reality is that, in absolute terms, US economic and military power is still enormous, and that it has – and will have for the foreseeable future – far more allies, friends, and influence than any of its competitors.
Third, while rising powers’ ambition for more space and influence is a given, it is not remotely inevitable that this quest must take a military form.
Fourth, the decline of reliance on military power to solve geopolitical problems is not a sign that wimps are in charge, but that adults are.
Of course military force needs to be kept in the toolbox, to respond to states that wage aggressive war, like Iraq in 1991.
Military capability is also needed to meet the global responsibility to protect citizens at risk of genocide and other mass-atrocity crimes if no lesser option is available and if intervening will do more good than harm, as would have been the case in Rwanda in 1994.
Hours later our military informed me that armed conflict was underway in Iraq.
Twelve years later, Poland's Prime Minister didn't need a belated call from his military to know that war was underway in Iraq.
Its difficulties are exacerbated by the dramatic disparity in military forces on either side of the Atlantic, and its belief that Europe's ambitions to become a military power will come to nothing because Europeans won't spend the money necessary to achieve that goal.
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