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CIAO DATE: 02/04
Foreign Policy
Five Years Ago in FP
Excerpts from the Winter 1998-99 issue
"Can High Technology Bring U.S. Troops Home?"
"In pursuing our fascination with technology, we could weaken traditional alliances and deterrence as well as our support for the very values and political principles that make other countries respect and trust the United States.... Consequently, undue haste to get technologically ready for the next war could wind up making that war more likely. It could also increase the odds that we would have to fight alone, without strong allied support or forward bases to facilitate a rapid and decisive response. If these things happen, the very revolution in military affairs that promised sanitary long-range combat will have made future warfare more lethal, rather than less so."
—Michael O'Hanlon
"The End of Complacency"
"...[W]hat has now been put into question is the pronounced tendency—most notably in Washington, the G-7, and the International Monetary Fund—to view globalization solely as a process to make the world safe for Wall Street. Just because the American blueprint for free market capitalism has proved successful in ensuring an unprecedented period of economic expansion does not mean that the global economy should function as a magnified picture of the U.S. economy."
—Claude Smadja