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Article: General strategies: how the United States makes war.(... Eliot Cohen explains America's defence doctrine)(Interview)
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- Harvard International Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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Recently you have written about the United States as a "reluctant warrior" in international affairs. Could you elaborate on your views about the unique nature of the US role in global affairs in the post-Cold War and post-September 11 era?
You used the right word when you said "unique," and that is the problem. There has not been any country, certainly since Rome--and that is not a good comparison--that has had the kind of power in the many different dimensions that the United States has today. The United States possesses not just the largest economy ever seen by a very wide margin, but also enormous and overwhelming military power. Furthermore, it also has a ...