Power, Profit and Prestige (tags)
The United States was also constantly at war, after independence, with Native Americans. The U.S. armed forces engaged in a thousand military operations, large and small, against Native Americans between 1868 and 1890!
Empire as a state of being (tags)
"The coming century will not be American, and the emerging world order will not be centered. As the historical re-balancing towards non-western world regions unfolds, the US will be faced with a novel de-centered and plural configuration of world politics."