I am warning in the tradition of anxious foresight. “Optimism and pessimism can be perilous attitudes that undergird policy. But of the two, optimism is apt to kill with greater certainty,” writes Colin S. Gray, the late British American scholar on geopolitics and military affairs. “Whereas pessimism may inspire a grand strategy and especially defense preparation…optimism has the potential to risk national safety and even international order more generally.”[37] Thus, I will continue in this vein.
