Winning the Long Peace – the future of the nation state in the age of disaggregation.

America has to choose one of three paths:

• surrender our position of military preeminence, or
• continue to maintain it with no mandate from global citizenry and wind up surrounded by enemies, or
• find a way to legitimize that position and win that mandate.

To continue to wield armed dominion without legitimizing it by gaining a mandate from global citizens will make America the target for generations of attacks of all kinds, all justified with the rhetoric of “freedom from American Imperialism.”

And so forth for about 10 pages.

It’s something I wrote from a fairly govt. centric, realpolitik position, and does not reflect all of my true beliefs or feelings about these issues – that’s what the book is for.