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24 Brown J. World Aff. 173 (2017-2018)
Reflections on U.S. Military Policy - An Interview with Jonah Shrock and Oliver Hermann, Providence, RI, 8 May 2017

handle is hein.journals/brownjwa24 and id is 173 raw text is: Reflections on U.S. Military Policy DOUGLAS FEITH An Interview with Jonah Shrock and Oliver Hermann Providence, RI, 8 May 2017 Douglasj Feith is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, where he heads the Center for National Security Strategies. As under secretary of defense for policy fom July 2001 until August 2005, he helped devise the U.S. governments strategy for the war on terrorism. Brown Journal of WorldAffairs: Various analysts have said that we are at an inflection point for U.S. strategy, involving declining U.S. primacy or growing 173 multipolarity. Do you think that analysis is correct? If so, what would be your key parameters for U.S. strategy going forward? Douglas Feith: I'm not keen on buzzwords like inflection point, which have no clear definition. You raise a significant point, though: the United States pre- viously had a particular position in the world, which you refer to as primacy. Especially after the Soviet Union's collapse, the United States had a position of unique importance in the world. We were the predominant military power, and our enormous economic strength gave us influence. But in the Obama years U.S. influence diminished: in Europe, with the Russian action in Ukraine; in the Middle East, with U.S. inactivity in Syria; and in East Asia, with the as- sertiveness of the Chinese in the South China Sea and the lack of a strong U.S. response. People in the United States and around the world question whether the United States still is the kind of predominant power that we were in the 20 years or so after the USSR's collapse. One of the things that President Trump wants to do is to rebuild and reassert U.S. power. It's not yet clear whether he and his team will do this wisely. Copyright © 2017 by the Brown journal ofWorldAffairs FALL/WINTER 2017 * VOLUME XXIV, ISSUE I

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