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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The public debate over the federal budget often obscures the relation between our domestic and foreign interests. Such debates test democracy's prudence by forcing a choice between immediate and easily perceptible problems and the distant and often silent strategic interests underpinning policy. An enduring strategy that enables US political and military strength through commercial superiority hinges on naval power. We appear to have forgotten the vital and unique responsibilities assigned to a navy in a democratic society: how it preserves US commercial success and domestic material well-being and-most often ignored-how a navy establishes the conditions that make liberal commerce on the seas possible.
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