Diplomacy is all but dead in America today. In its place sits a mindless obsession with lethal military power. Supporters of this unhealthy preoccupation claim it is necessary to keep America safe. Solid and growing evidence reveals the truth to be very nearly the opposite.
Since the abandonment of the diplomacy-first foreign policy that served our country well for the better part of two centuries, America is spending more on its military but getting less for it. (The U.S. Army is the smallest it has been since the 1930s.) It has less global influence than at any time in living memory and is in real danger of stumbling into a European war – one that could spiral out of control and into a nuclear exchange.
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Daniel
Davis
Senior Fellow & Military Expert
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