...friends. We will maintain the forces sufficient to support our obligations, and to defend freedom. Our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential...of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States. Intelligence — and how we use it — is our first line of defense against terrorists and...

...lead the United States has opened since the fall of the Soviet Union more than a decade ago. . . . Our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential...of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States. — The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, September 2002 We cannot...

...Postulat verlangt zugleich nach ihrer Bewahrung, die zu einem unbedingten Grundsatz der NSS geworden ist. »Our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential...of surpassing. or equaling, the power of the United States. «'2S Die strategische Untrennbarkeit von Macht und Mission liegt ihm gedanklich zugrunde....

...friends. We will maintain the forces sufficient to support our obligations, and to defend freedom. Our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential...of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States. Intelligence — and how we use it — is our first line of defense against terrorists and...

...policy of preeminence. The document explicitly states the goal of continued primacy of American power: 'Our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential...of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States.' 16 This is a marked shift in official American strategy from one of containing potential enemies...

...government, consider this clear statement of the US goal from the 2002 National Security Strategy document: "Our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential...of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States." To do that, "the United States will require bases and stations within and beyond Western Europe...

...expenditure and the concern, clearly set out in the National Security Strategy (Bush 2002: 29-30), that US forces: 'will be strong enough to dissuade potential...of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States.' To that end, the US has maintained an unprecedentedly high level of military expenditure relative...

...the United States has opened since the fall of the Soviet Union more than a decade ago." US military forces "will be strong enough to dissuade potential...of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States."' This strategy for a "new American internationalism" articulates for the first time since...

...with the huge lead the United States has opened up since the fall of the Soviet Union." Item: American "forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential...of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States." Item: "We will not hesitate to act alone, if necessary, to exercise our right to self-defense...

...their responsibilities with a persuasive bombing campaign. The United States, the Strategy states, must "be strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries...of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States.""" The idea that any country might do so any time soon is rather absurd, given that we spend...