Quote Originally Posted by Bob's World View Post
The fact that America has operated without a "Grand Strategy" for so long...
If I'm correct, it revolves around four and eight year increments of change.
America has one over arching objective, and two main supporting objectives. The first is to maintain the American way of life. The following two are to secure the homeland and to maintain access to markets and resources. In conjunction with those objectives we have over the last 60 years or so shifted (some would argue "drifted" is more apt) from "doctrines" of "Containment" to "Intervention" to "Preemption."
More people would argue that we have been intervening around the world for over 200 years and that 'containment' was neither a doctrine or as pervasive as many seem to wish to think. We -- and other nations -- have also never hesitated to use pre-emption when it struck the fancy.
...I hope the new administration takes this on. Such a product would shape the parameters of everything from the recent "Stimulus package" to the way ahead in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I regrettably conclude you're likely to be disappointed in that...