A Naval Postgraduate School professor and her Special Forces coauthors offer a radical yet commonsensical approach to recalibrating global security. Their book discusses what the United States could actually do to restore order to the world without having to engage in either global policing or nation-building. Two tracks to their strategy are presented: strengthening state responsibility abroad and strengthening the social fabric at home. The authors' goal is to provoke a serious debate that addresses the gaps and disconnects between what the United States says and what it does, how it wants to be perceived, and how it is perceived. Without leaning left or right, they hope to draw many people into the debate and force Washington to rethink what it sends service men and women abroad to do.

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Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Global insecurity today -- Chapter 2: Divisble America -- Chapter 3: Why sovereignty? -- Chapter 4: The radical shift -- the relationship framework -- Chapter 5: Renewing America's vision of war -- Chapter 6: Indivisible America -- Chapter 7: To each his own: the ultimate freedom agenda -- Chapter 8: Alliances and other arrangements -- Chapter 9: Deeds, not words -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Time now -- Afghanistan -- Acronyms -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index.