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The return of Marco Polo's world : war, strategy, and American interests in the twenty-first century / Robert D. Kaplan.

by Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-

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Random House, 2018.

Democracy -- Government policy -- United States.

World politics -- 21st century.

United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century.

United States -- Military policy.

9780812996791 (hc.)

xiv, 280 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Strategy -- The return of Marco Polo's world and the U.S. military response -- The art of avoiding war -- The tragedy of U.S. foreign policy -- Elegant decline: the Navy's rising importance -- when North Korea falls -- War and its costs -- Rereading Vietnam -- Iraq: the counterfactual game -- The wounded home front -- No greater honor -- Thinkers -- In defense of Henry Kissinger -- Samuel Huntington: looking the world in the eye -- Why John Mearshimer is right (about some things) -- Reflections -- On foreign policy, Donald Trump is no realist -- The post-imperial moment -- Fated to lead -- The great danger of a new utopianism -- Marco Polo redux -- Traveling China's new Silk Road.

"In the late thirteenth century, Marco Polo began a decades-long trek from Venice to China along the trade route between Europe and Asia known as the Silk Road—a foundation of Kublai Khan’s sprawling empire. Now, in the early twenty-first century, the Chinese regime has proposed a land-and-maritime Silk Road that duplicates exactly the route Marco Polo traveled. Drawing on decades of firsthand experience as a foreign correspondent and military embed for The Atlantic, Robert D. Kaplan outlines the timeless principles that should shape America’s role in a turbulent world that encompasses the Chinese challenge. From Kaplan’s immediate thoughts on President Trump to a frank examination of what will happen in the event of war with North Korea, these essays are a vigorous reckoning with the difficult choices the United States will face in the years ahead."--From publisher.

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