
Lawfare Archive: Andrew Bacevich on 'The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory'
The Lawfare Podcast
00:00
Globalization and Military Supremacy
The end of the cold war left the united states without an enemy and without a framework for understanding the world. Several claims emerged in lar to shape policy going forward through the post-cold war administrations, including belief that globalization would make everybody rich. A second idea was conviction that at the end of theCold War,. the united states had achieved a level of military superiority that really amounted to military supremacy. This was linked to a belief that technology held the key to success in future wars, all future wars. And because we believed at the time that we ndof owned technology, that we would be able to maintain this military supremacy and perpetuity. The fourth element has to do with the role
Transcript
Play full episode