Today the United States deploys troops in more than 170 countries. Its military operates against terrorism in roughly 40 percent of the world’s nations. Dozens of countries are targets of U.S. sanctions.
[...] There was a time when Americans believed that armed dominance obstructed and corrupted genuine engagement in the world, far from being its foundation. That insight has been buried, now nearly beyond living memory. But it is perhaps not altogether lost.
Stephen Wertheim (@stephenwertheim) is deputy director of research and policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a research scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of the forthcoming “Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy,” [Harvard UP, 2020] from which this essay is adapted.
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