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148 Strategic Choices for a Turbulent World: In Pursuit of Security and Opportunity alliances, and then encounters a more threatening world, it will have underspent on insurance and will face additional costs and risks, some of which may be highly consequential. These strategies are meant to elaborate on plausible choices for U.S. leadership in the framework of the contemporary political debate. We do not endorse or recommend any of them. We assume that the next administration will mix and match policies as it deems fit. Nevertheless, we hope the conceptual frameworks discussed in this report will help policymakers and the public in considering these difficult choices.
CHAPTER SEVEN Option I: “Come Home America”: Domestic Renewal, International Restraint . . . In the new world disorder, America needs national security policies that begin and end by asking what’s in these policies for Americans, not what foreign nations long dependent on our protection might think about them. There is no reason for us to continue to shoulder burdens others can now bear. We should build our strength while holding it in reserve. We should act only when it’s in our interest to act. Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. 1 The United States has been fighting Salafi-jihadist terrorists for nearly 15 years—the longest foreign war in U.S. history and an inconclusive one. 2 A restrained conception of America’s role in the world begins with the premise that both economic vitality and political cohesion, which have underwritten U.S. involvement and influence in world affairs for decades, have been stretched to the breaking point. 3 The view that the 1 Chas W. Freeman, Jr., “America in the New World Disorder,” remarks at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, February 11, 2016. 2 The United States fought repeated skirmishes and wars with various Native American tribes over a much longer period, however. Smithsonian National Museum of American History, “Western Indian Wars,” web page, undated. 3 Foreign affairs columnist Ian Bremmer, who termed his version of this posture “Independent America,” argued that the United States must “declare independence from the need to solve other people’s problems and . . . finally realize our country’s enormous untapped potential by focusing our attentions at home.” Ian Bremmer, Superpower: Three Choices for America’s Role in the World, New York: Portfolio (Penguin Group), May 2015, p. 6. 149
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Preface This is the sixth and final
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Summary For more than seven decades
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Acknowledgments RAND Corporation Pr
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CHAPTER ONE Introduction What is Am
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