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15 J. Nat'l Sec. L. & Pol'y 1 (2025)

handle is hein.journals/jnatselp15 and id is 1 raw text is: ARTICLES Hard Cash and Easy Money: Funding Authority for Security Force Assistance Brigades Major Kier M.S. Elmonairy* And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him-a threefold cord is not quickly broken.' I don't want no hard cash. I just want that easy money.2 I. THE INDISPENSABLE NATION3 DISPENSES WITH ILLUSIONS Rumors about the end of history4 were greatly exaggerated.5 Where pundits and scholars once spoke in triumphant tones about America as the unipole in the * Judge Advocate, United States Army. Presently assigned as Student, Command and General Staff College, United States Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. LL.M. 2024, The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia. J.D., 2019, Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.; B.S., 2011, the United States Military Academy at West Point. Previous assignments include Editor in Chief, The Army Lawyer, Professional Communications Program, The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, United States Army, Charlottesville, Virginia; Chief of General Crimes, Military Justice Advisor, and Administrative Law Attorney, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Maneuver Center of Excellence and Fort Moore, 2019-2022; Deputy Strategic Planner, 7th Army Training Command, Grafenwoehr, Germany, 2015-2016; Executive Officer, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 7th Army Training Command, Grafenwoehr, Germany, 2015; Executive Officer, C Troop, 1-91 Cavalry Regiment, 173d Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), Grafenwoehr, Germany, 2014-2015; Assistant S-3, 1-91 Cavalry Regiment, 173d Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), Grafenwoehr, Germany, 2013-2014; Platoon Leader, A Troop, 1-91 Cavalry Regiment, 173d Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), Schweinfurt, Germany and Afghanistan, 2012-2013. Member of the Bar of New Jersey. This paper was submitted in partial completion of the Master of Laws requirements of the 72d Judge Advocate Officer Graduate Course. © 2025, Major Kier M.S. Elmonairy. 1. Ecclesiastes 4:12 (English Standard Version). 2. This phrase is often attributed to (S-3s) at quarterly acquisition review boards. Alternatively, see BILLY JOEL, Easy Money, on INNOCENT MAN (Columbia Records 1983). 3. Former Secretary of State (SECSTATE), Madeleine Albright, is closely associated with this triumphalist formulation for the United States. See Interview by Matt Lauer with Madeleine Albright, Sec'y of State, in Columbus, Oh. (Feb. 19, 1998) tt s: erma.cc - ; Micah Zenka, The Myth of the Indispensable Nation, FOREIGN POL'Y (Nov. 6, 2014, 3:48 PM), tt s: erma.cc - (recounting the origin of the term and explaining the distorting effect the ideas that stand behind it can have on American foreign policy). 4. See generally FRANCIS FUKUYAMA, THE END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN (Macmillan ed., 1992) (predicting that the end of the Cold War heralded the end of history as a contest of competing conceptions of society and that Western-style liberal democracy would become universal). 5. The misquotation of Mark Twain, The rumors about my death were greatly exaggerated, remains popular, even internationally. See Erin Prater, Putin Uses Mark Twain Misquote to Address 1

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