Global military dominance has outlived its purpose

October 15, 2020

Many Americans no longer understand why their country should police the world. It’s no wonder: global military dominance has outlived its reason for being.

Stephen Wertheim, the Quincy Institute’s Deputy Director of Research and Policy, explains below. For more, read his essay in the New York Times and his new book, Tomorrow, the World.

Help us achieve a world where peace is the norm and war the exception.

The Quincy Institute is a transpartisan “action tank” and communications project, established to challenge the decades-long obsession of U.S. foreign policy decision makers with global military dominance and war.

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