Muller: I'm trying to expand a few things. One is doing fairly lengthy paper on china, building out from the bolting out from the book. He may do something in russia, and i may do something on ciber just the sort of things we're talking about promised. After work that outgotis something you mentioned before, by the way. So he've caught a responsive cord. The argument is basically, of which i can another thing you mention in your book is a new products. And overwhelmingly, 85, 90, 95 % of those fail.
In this conversation based on his new book, The Stupidity of War, political scientist John Mueller argues that American foreign policy since 1945 has been one long miscue; most international threats — including during the Cold War — have been substantially exaggerated. The result has been agony and bloviation, unnecessary and costly military interventions that have mostly failed. With international war in decline, complacency and appeasement become viable diplomatic devices and a large military is scarcely required.