America Historically Had a Restrained Foreign Policy: Its Time to Return to It

July 25, 2017 Topic: Security Region: Americas Blog Brand: The Skeptics Tags: MilitaryWeaponsStrategyCold WarTechnologyIntervention

America Historically Had a Restrained Foreign Policy: Its Time to Return to It

There is compelling evidence that a strategy of restraint would yield far better outcomes for the nation.

Enea Gjoza is a student at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Image: U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Joaquin Spikes, assigned to the U.S. Army Security Assistance Command, securely straps his gas mask during a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear scenario as part of the 2017 Army Materiel Command's Best Warrior Competition July 17, 2017, at Camp Atterbury, Indiana.​ Flicker / U.S. Department of Defense