What Good Is Grand Strategy? Quotes

“If America were to become a dropout in assuming the responsibility for defending peace and freedom in the world . . . the rest of the world would live in terror,”
― Hal Brands, What Good Is Grand Strategy?: Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush

“Violence was becoming distressingly normal; there were over six hundred bombings or bombing attempts across the country in 1969, and the number climbed still higher the year after.”
― Hal Brands, What Good Is Grand Strategy?: Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush