How Did The Doctrine Of The Us Increase Their Military Power

The U.S. has the ability to shape the century through its policies that helps the actuality to exist. These policies are essential to safeguard the interests and values of the U.S. as well as to guard against the threats brought by other rising regional powers. Because of the U.S. being a superpower, the U.S. were able to center its foreign policy, national security and economic interest towards other countries making the U.S. more powerful in the international arena.
The Bush Doctrine is backed up with military power. Moreover, it also emphasize on the maintenance of the U.S. supremacy in the world. In order to carry out pre-emptive actions, the U.S. has been increasing their military power. The Bush Doctrine has four elements. The first element of the Bush Doctrine is …show more content…
wanted to extend the benefits of freedom across the globe to have a balance of power that favors freedom. The second is Preventive war in which it downgrades containment and deterrence. The third is Unilateralism in which it aims to established bases in the world and developed technology in order to increase military power. The last is the American Hegemony in which the U.S. wanted to established its hegemony, primacy and empire across the world. Thus, the Bush Doctrine set-up a goal for U.S.’s security by moralizing the concept of security extending the spatial and time dimensions of security. After the end of the WWII, the U.S. placed significant emphasis on Asia including the establishing alliance relationship, maintaining the military presence, and playing an important role of development in the region. This lead to the creation of the new foreign