Strategy for Empire U.S. Regional Security Policy in the PostDCold War Era

by Loveman, Brian; W. Bush, President George; Catoire, Richard G.; Graubart, Jonathan; Gupta, Dipak K.; Ignatieff, Michael; Johnson, Chalmers; Peters, Ralph; Russell, James A.; Schoultz, Lars; Schulz, Donald E.; Scobell, Andrew; C. Thomas, Raju G.; Tokatlian

• ISBN13: 9780842051774
• ISBN10: 0842051775
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2004-08-06
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The United States Department of Defense has carved the world into five pieces, called unified military commands, maintaining troops and military leadership in each. The geographic boundaries of the unified commands, which together encompass the entire globe, "are set in a way that makes sense to us (the U.S.) for political, military, cultural sorts of reasons," according to the DOD. Yet outside military and defense circles, the potential impact of post-1990 American strategic reach'¬ ;or perhaps overreach'¬ ;has not been given sufficient attention. In Strategy for Empire, Brian Loveman fills that gap by raising the key questions all students should be considering: Even under the perilous conditions imposed by global terrorism, diffusion of weapons of mass destruction, and international "anarchy," can the United States afford, and should it seek to justify, assigning responsibility to combatant commanders for every area of the globe and maintaining a military presence in well over 100 countries? Can a foreign policy of preemptive deterrence and covert operations around the globe against terrorists, international criminal organizations, and so-called rogue states be compatible with American constitutional democracy? Or has the United States itself become a rogue superpower, at risk of losing its democratic soul and institutions at home and its moral credibility abroad in its efforts to manage a global empire through regional military commands? This timely reader provides answers to these questions from the perspective of American presidents, policymakers, military officers, establishment think tanks, and critical scholars. The text and accompanying CD collect in one place a synthesis of official and semi-official views of post-1990 regional security agendas and of the evolving perception of post-Cold War threat scenarios. The book begins with President George Bush's "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America" ( September 2002); then presents the views of military strategists, governmen

Table of Contents

Introduction : U.S. regional security policies in the post-Cold War era
The national security strategy of the United States of America, September 2002	p. 1
U.S. regional security policies, 1990-2003 : perspectives from the military, intelligence, and establishment think tanks	p. 33
The American mission	p. 35
The challenges of American imperial power	p. 43
Fortress Europa : European defense and the future of the North Atlantic alliance	p. 53
The U.S. Army and the Asia-Pacific	p. 69
Searching for a post-Saddam regional security architecture	p. 101
The growing threat to democracy in Latin America	p. 121
A CINC for sub-Saharan Africa? : rethinking the Unified Command Plan	p. 135
Alternative views of U.S. regional security policies since 1990	p. 153
U.S. policy toward Russia and Eurasia in the 1990s	p. 155
When might makes wrong : the impact of the U.S. military in East Asia	p. 173
U.S. regional security policy in South Asia	p. 203
U.S. regional security policy in the Middle East	p. 229
U.S. security policy toward Latin America : enduring themes, changing realities	p. 251
Colombia : U.S. security policy in the Andean region and the specter of a regionalized war	p. 265
Is the United States a rogue nation?	p. 289
Selected references on U.S. regional security and defense policy since 1990	p. 311
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