{"id":2794,"date":"2008-07-18T22:04:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T22:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2008-07-18T22:04:29","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T22:04:29","slug":"dr-barry-posen-on-american-grand-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2794","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Barry Posen on American Grand Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Falling on the heels of the Bacevich post, MIT&#8217;s \u00a0<strong>Dr. Barry Posen&#8217;s<\/strong> testimony before the House\u00a0Armed Services Committee&#8217;s subcommittee for oversight\u00a0calls for &#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/ssp\/people\/posen\/A_Grand_Strategy_of_Restraint_and_Renewal_testimony_for_congress_july_15.pdf\">Restraint and Renewal<\/a>&#8221; (PDF &#8211;\u00a0guess not too many interventionists received\u00a0a subcommittee invite).<\/p>\n<p>Posen is a sharp thinker who aims here to deflate comfortable assumptions and a number of sacred cows &#8211; like the existence of NATO or security relationships with Israel and Japan. While much of his\u00a0critique of American excess\u00a0is reasonable,\u00a0Posen&#8217;s alternative quasi-non interventionist grand strategy\u00a0is predicated, like others in this vein, on lowballing estimates of the negative, unintended, consequences on an American strategic retraction on this scale. America\u00a0pulling out of NATO military command and loosening ties with Japan and Israel will cause ripple effects in the international order.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com\/\">Wiggins<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falling on the heels of the Bacevich post, MIT&#8217;s \u00a0Dr. Barry Posen&#8217;s testimony before the House\u00a0Armed Services Committee&#8217;s subcommittee for oversight\u00a0calls for &#8221; Restraint and Renewal&#8221; (PDF &#8211;\u00a0guess not too many interventionists received\u00a0a subcommittee invite). Posen is a sharp thinker who aims here to deflate comfortable assumptions and a number of sacred cows &#8211; like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,304,87,340,270,515,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-defense","category-foreign-policy","category-military-reform","category-national-security","category-opposed-systems-design","category-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}