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William H. Overholt  Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Asia Center

America's Biggest Enemy Is Neither China nor Russia -- It's Us

Posted: 09/24/2015

For half a century after World War II, the United States pursued one of world history's most successful national strategies: it nurtured the economic and institutional rebuilding of Europe and Japan, the development of other countries, especially in Asia, and bonded them economically, while protecting this strategy with superior military force. Beginning with the Marshall Plan, Presidents Truman and Eisenhower fashioned this bipartisan strategy, limiting military expenditure whenever it threatened resources for the core economic strategy, and all presidents through Clinton pursued it, the latter with particular vigor. This strategy defeated the Soviet Union, which also had a powerful military and a powerful ideology (however perverted the practice), but gave nearly exclusive priority to the military. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-h-overholt/america-enemy-china-russia_b_8170624.html?utm_hp_ref=world