{"640813":{"#nid":"640813","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why American Strategy Fails: Ending the Chronic Imbalance Between Ends and Means","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAdmiral Sandy Winnefeld (ret.), USN, a Sam Nunn School distinguished professor of the practice, and Allison Graham, a Nunn School advisory board member, have co-authored \u0026ldquo;Why American Strategy Fails.\u0026rdquo; The article published in \u003Cem\u003EForeign Affairs\u003C\/em\u003E was written with Michael J Morrell, former acting director and deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, discusses how the next U.S. administration is going to face the most difficult foreign policy test.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn January, either a second Trump administration or a Biden administration will face the most difficult foreign policy test the United States has experienced since the early years of the Cold War. This test stems not just from specific challenges but also from a growing imbalance among four classic variables of grand strategy: ends, ways, means, and the security landscape. Left unrecognized and unaddressed, gaps between U.S. ambitions and the U.S. ability to fulfill them will generate increasingly unacceptable strategic risks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/united-states\/2020-10-28\/why-american-strategy-fails\u0022\u003ERead the article\u0026nbsp;on \u003Cem\u003EForeign Affairs \u003C\/em\u003E(by subscription).\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34435","created_gmt":"2020-10-30 13:46:36","changed_gmt":"2020-11-09 19:41:45","author":"jpalacios9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"SCP student town hall","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/united-states\/2020-10-28\/why-american-strategy-fails","dateline":{"date":"2020-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"445431":{"id":"445431","type":"image","title":"James A. \u201cSandy\u201d Winnefeld","body":null,"created":"1449256217","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:10:17","changed":"1475895184","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:04","alt":"James A. \u201cSandy\u201d Winnefeld","file":{"fid":"203180","name":"150702-d-hu462-040.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/150702-d-hu462-040_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/150702-d-hu462-040_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":439314,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/150702-d-hu462-040_0.jpg?itok=l8I_k36Q"}}},"media_ids":["445431"],"groups":[{"id":"1286","name":"Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP)"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3906","name":"foreign policy"},{"id":"181306","name":"global development"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}