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The lost meaning of strategy

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The scale of the two world wars and the influence of maritime powers, like the US and Britain, prompted the evolution of 'grand strategy' to enable the coordination of allies in different theatres of war and to mobilize all national resources for the prosecution of war. Since the end of the Cold War the vocabulary of war making has lost definition, making fewer conflicts seem larger than they are, the results of which are evident since 11th September 2001.

United Kingdom, British foreign relations

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A dubious template for US foreign policy

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The global war on terror is a dubious template for the security challenges faced by the US as it distorts the focus of policy and exaggerates the effectiveness of military power. Strategic debate should focus less on unilateral versus multilateral approaches or hard power versus soft power and recognize the real missing ingredient in the existing policy-smart statecraft using leverage in all its form for engaging the world's zones of turbulence.

National security, War on Terrorism, 2001-, Antiterrorism measures

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Washington's troubling obsession with public diplomacy

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'Public diplomacy' has become the holy grail of American foreign policy and polarized by sharp partisan divisions generating much agreement in Washington. Rather than fixating on public diplomacy, the pundits and policy makers should recognize that America's power and policies are the problems, and not its inability to communicate.

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