War and foreign policy, American-style

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 177-178

  Brzezinski, Zbigniew ^a,b,c  

^a Carter Administration

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (United States)

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EID: 24944528017     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2000.0029     Document Type: Article

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1. I address the geostrategic implications of the foregoing more fully in my book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (New York: Basic Books, 1997), which - not surprisingly - provoked the strongest reactions in France, Germany, Russia, and China.
2. In fairness to Tocqueville, it should be noted that he also argued that "the least warlike and also the least revolutionary part of the democratic army will always be its chief commanders" (II, 273). He ascribed such pacifist inclinations to the complacent desire of the socially promoted generals to preserve - and not to jeopardize - their positions.
3. Not surprisingly, the epitome of the American field commander has been General Omar N. Bradley, not General George S. Patton.