According to the most recent National Security Strategy, made public at the end of 2022, America's official policy is "there is nothing beyond our capacity." Such a statement is ridiculous, especially in light of America's obvious overextension in the face of multiple simultaneous global crises.
We are in over our heads without even being in an honest-to-goodness shooting war. Yet the foreign policy establishment seems only interested in expanding American commitments and entanglements hither, thither, and yon.
American recruitment has been abysmal, with massive shortfalls for successive years, which seems unlikely to improve anytime soon, especially given the widespread phenomenon of military families deciding to leave the profession.
Rather than returning to America's traditional Monroe Doctrine and a focus on hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, the powers that be will probably attempt to continue our forward deployed primacist grand strategy until it all comes tumbling down from one catastrophe or another.
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