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The United States and the Crisis of Grand Strategy: Middle East Wars, Global Commitments, and the Challenge of Partisan Policy

The article argues that U.S. foreign policy since 1979 has been defined by strategic incoherence, partisan politics, and the absence of a consistent grand strategy, leading to failures in the Middle East, Global War on Terror (GWOT), and shifting policies toward NATO, Russia, and China. This instability has weakened alliances, undermined deterrence, enabled strategic drift, and highlights the urgent need for a nonpartisan, long-term strategy integrating military, diplomatic, and economic power.