We've been under what Dr. John Lewis Gaddis and others describe as "Grand Strategies of Containment" since the late 1940s.
Personally, I think what worked well enough to get us through the Cold War is in many ways contributing to what we call GWOT today.
Coming soon is a piece proposing a change from this negative, controlling framework to a more positive approach that I see as "A Grand Strategy of Empowerment."
Robert C. Jones
Intellectus Supra Scientia
(Understanding is more important than Knowledge)
"The modern COIN mindset is when one arrogantly goes to some foreign land and attempts to make those who live there a lesser version of one's self. The FID mindset is when one humbly goes to some foreign land and seeks first to understand, and then to help in some small way for those who live there to be the best version of their own self." Colonel Robert C. Jones, US Army Special Forces (Retired)
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