No power in history has exercised such global reach.  With brutal immediacy, forces from the United States may be dispatched and deployed within hours to combat any designated adversary.  From its webbed network of bases official, semi-official and undeclared, Washington’s imperium can exert heft in a number of military domains with a ruthlessness the envy of any More

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