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Editors’ Pick

January 13, 2017

America Still Needs Hard Power, and the Willingness to Use It

Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.

In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen argues that the United States needs to maintain its global primacy and leadership on the international stage—above all to guarantee its own interests. Contrary to those who have become overly enamored with “soft power,” Cohen believes that the U.S. can only succeed if it has the ability and the willingness to use military force. Mackubin Thomas Owens writes in his review:

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