Title
Abstract
For many Americans, the past decade has been a bewildering era. They have seen their country attacked and their husbands, sons, wives, and daughters sent to war in faraway places. They have read about orange alerts and red alerts. They have waited on long lines at airport security checks. They know that defense expenditures have soared and that Homeland Security has mushroomed. They have seen gruesome daily headlines about the carnage in Iraq, the strife in Afghanistan, and the turmoil in Pakistan. They read about the suicide attacks that were prevented or aborted in Europe, and they know, darkly, that terrorists are at work from North Africa to Southeast Asia, from the United Kingdom to Russia to China. With perils abounding, Americans want a national strategy that makes sense.
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
9780195369410
Publication Date
7-21-2008
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Copyright © 2008 Oxford University Press. This book chapter first appeared in To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine.
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Recommended Citation
Leffler, Melvyn P., and Jeffrey W. Legro. "Introduction." In To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine, edited by Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro, 1-10. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.