As the US embarks on a dramatic expansion of military deployments and responsibilities overseas (Afghanistan and Iraq), it seems an appropriate time to consider the case against our post-WWII military globalism. Mr. Olsen presents a cogent and extremely well footnoted critique of America's self-appointed role as world policeman, and offers a blueprint for a set of policies to support an "isolationist" or "Fortress America" approach to our defense needs.
Mr. Olsen does a good job pointing out how this approach, by necessarily focusing on homeland defense, would better protect us against terrorism; presents an informative summary of the full extent of our "entangling alliances" around the globe; and documents our Allies unwillingness to pay the bill for their own defense. He covers all regions of the world in a plan for a retreat from our forward military deployments, including a discussion of Korea.
You don't see this kind of well-reasoned attack on our foreign policy underpinnings in the mainstream media very often, and I found it timely and interesting. It is up the reader to try to reconcile this approach, with say, a well-argued case for intervention and globalism in a specific case such as Iraq (Ken Pollack).
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