June 06, 2019
Americans are still enjoying the security won by the troops who stormed the beaches on D-Day, but that safety is not guaranteed
As you read this, you are enjoying the legacy of the "Greatest Generation." Their greatest achievement is not the victory over Japan and Germany in 1945 but the 74 years of peace that followed.
That peace eluded the victors of World War I, who, without the participation of an isolationist United States, struggled for 21 years to find a way to never again experience the horror of 1914-1918. But the political structures they made, such as the League of Nations, could not stop the terrible second convulsion in 1939 of an even bloodier war in Europe.
The victors of that second war, however, this time including the United States, turned again to diplomacy and statecraft to build an international system that could keep not just war, but nuclear war, at bay.
Read the full article in Business Insider.
More from CNAS
-
Europe's Defense Dilemma
Podcast
Since the invasion of Ukraine, European states have taken major steps to rebuild their defense industrial bases, both to supply Ukraine and to rebuild their own militaries. Eu...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
-
The Donroe Doctrine? Venezuela, Greenland, and America's New Agenda
Podcast
On January 3, the United States apprehended the sitting president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and brought him to the United States to face trial for drug trafficking. In the...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
-
Ukraine Negotiations: Prospects and Pitfalls of Peace
Podcast
This week Brussels Sprouts breaks down the latest negotiations on Ukraine. American officials told reporters that they had resolved or closed gaps around 90 percent of their d...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
-
Ex-Nato Supreme Allied Commander Warns of Russia’s Territorial Ambitions
Video
Gen. Philip Breedlove (Ret.), member of the CNAS board of advisors, told Fox News Digital he sees “a lot of truth” in the German foreign minister’s warning about Russia, sayin...
By Philip Breedlove
