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American Empire : Imperial Overstretch Likely
- Approaching imperial overstretch
-- As our reserves are being called up, not only is our active duty U.S. military stretched thin. Our budget deficit is $455 billion and rising, our trade deficit is $500 billion and rising, our dollar has fallen 25 percent against the euro.
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- Going critical: American power and the consequences of fiscal overstretch
-- TOPPLING THREE tyrannies--that of Slobodan Milosevic, the Taliban and now Saddam Hussein--within four years is no mean achievement by the standards of any past global empire. What makes this achievement so remarkable is that it comes little more than a decade after a wave of anxiety about American "overstretch" and decline...
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- Imperial overstretch in Iraq
-- Back in the late 1980s Paul Kennedy, another fairly mainstream scholar at Yale University, asserted in The Rise and Fall of Great Powers that, in their waning years, empires engage in "overstretch". As they begin to decline, the dominant powers almost invariably resort to war and belligerency, thereby accelerating their demise as they waste their national treasuries on military spending to the detriment of their economies and their peoples...
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- Imperial temptations
-- America risks marching in the well-trod footsteps of virtually every imperial power of the modern age. America has no formal colonial empire and seeks none, but like other great powers over the past two centuries, it has sometimes sought to impose peace on the tortured politics of weaker societies. Consequently, it faces many of the same strategic dilemmas as did the great powers that have gone before it.
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- On imperial overstretch
-- The official view from the Pentagon is that all is going well in Iraq and that the US forces are more than ready to continue the global war against terrorism. And yet, as the army commanders and planners in the Pentagon know only too well, this is a mere diplomatic smokescreen. The reality is that US forces are now severely overstretched and the number of their military commitments worldwide is increasing by the day.
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- The Economics of Empire
-- (Fall 2003) Walden Bello insists that empires require both political legitimacy and moral vision to survive and prosper. Bello accepts that the US met both criteria in the post-WW2 period. Nonetheless he argues that the absence of US political legitimacy and moral vision today spurs resistance to US imperialism.
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- War on Terror: Coming Apart at the Seams
-- (March 20, 2004) "The article remarks that the US has not pulled itself out of the "nation-building business" as promised by President Bush in the election of 2000. The author argues that people in the West mistakenly see nation-building as a noble or just cause. Elsewhere, many people see it as a new form of colonialism and imperialism."
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- Wider Mission Stretches Military
-- (May 2, 2002) Chasing terrorists around the globe is putting a strain on the US military. The US Defense Secretary argues that the US should cut involvement in “non-military duties” such as international peacekeeping so the military can engage in “real” military duties.
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