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Quantifying US Militarism

Power Problems

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The Parochial Interest and Path Dependency Explanation

The United States built up during the Cold War a formidable military to deal with a formidable military on the other side. The success of 1991 and the Persian Gulf led to this sort of heuristic sense, I think, in the U.S., that if we could wield this here, then we can do it elsewhere. We're not going to get a pure experiment here because Russia has now invaded Ukraine,.

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