FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘THE DELUSIONS OF AMERICAN POWER’….

The Limits of American Power

U.S. Strategy and the Delusion of Force By William H. McRaven

The war in Iran is far from the first time that U.S. policymakers have failed to appreciate the limits of American power. But the Trump administration’s use of military force against the Islamic Republic since February 28 offers a particularly glaring example of a mistake that has often characterized American strategy in recent decades. The war was launched without a clear rationale and with a constantly shifting set of objectives—from changing Tehran’s regime and squelching its nuclear ambitions to, more recently, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which wasn’t closed until the war started. The results, not surprisingly, have been bad both for U.S. interests and for the Middle East.

The Fog of Tech

Why the Future of War Can’t Escape the Past By Mara Karlin

China’s Long Twilight

Demographic Decline, Political Paralysis, and the Fate of Great Powers By Carl Minzner

The Chokepoint Trap

How the Search for Economic Security Will End in Geopolitical Calamity By Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman, and Yeling Tan

The Case for Economic Espionage

America Should Spy On Foreign Companies to Help Its Own By David S. Cohen

Empires of AI

The Rise and Fall of a New Global Order By Niall Ferguson, Lisa Klaassen, and Eric Schmidt