Power and Complacency - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power and Complacency write by Phillip T. Lohaus. This book was released on 2021-07. Power and Complacency available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction -- Russia -- Iran -- China -- The United States -- Conclusions.
Power and Complacency
Power and Complacency - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power and Complacency write by Phillip T. Lohaus. This book was released on 2021-07. Power and Complacency available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The United States is at a crossroads. Despite a defense budget that dwarfs that of any of the nation's rivals, the marginal return on this investment has decreased dramatically since the end of World War II. Why? Why have America's rivals, despite inferior resources, increasingly set the terms of international competition? How might America's leaders reconsider the application of power to ensure a favorable place on an increasingly crowded global stage? By tracing the geographic and historical development of four global actors--Russia, Iran, China, and the United States--Phillip T. Lohaus illuminates four equally distinct approaches to competition outside of warfare. He argues that while America's actions may have birthed information as a currency of power, the nation's failure to fully grasp the implications of this transition has created critical opportunities for its rivals to increase their power at the expense of the United States. The American way of competition, rooted in a scientific understanding of warfare, may impede effectiveness in the amorphous and unscientific landscape of twenty-first-century competition. From Rome to Britain, complacency has contributed to the downfall of many empires. Yet the slow bleed of American power may still be stanched by an approach to competition that emphasizes subtlety, diffusion, and ubiquity. America has developed and used these tools in the past--its very survival may hinge on returning to them. Power and Complacency defines the differing perspectives of America's international conflicts and offers possible solutions for reformulating its superpower strengths.
The Complacent Class
The Complacent Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Complacent Class write by Tyler Cowen. This book was released on 2017-02-28. The Complacent Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the trend of Americans away from the traditionally mobile, risk-accepting, and adaptable tendencies that defined them for much of recent history, and toward stagnation and comfort, and how this development has the potential to make future changes more disruptive. --Publisher's description.
The Stupidity of War
The Stupidity of War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Stupidity of War write by John Mueller. This book was released on 2021-03-04. The Stupidity of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative argument shows the consequences of increased aversion to international war for foreign and military policy.
Complacent Nation
Complacent Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Complacent Nation write by Gavin Ellis. This book was released on 2016-08-12. Complacent Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New Zealanders are too complacent about the continuing erosion of their right to know what government is doing on their behalf. Political risk has become a primary consideration in whether official information requests will be met, and successive governments have allowed free speech rights to be overridden. Drawing on decades of experience as a journalist and editor, Gavin Ellis chronicles the patterns of erosion and calls for entrenchment of the Bill of Rights Act. As supreme law, it would set a high bar that politicians must hurdle before freedom of expression could be curtailed.
