With land wars in Europe and the Middle East and tensions running high in Asia, speculation has only grown louder that we are on the brink of or in the early stages of World War III. We are not. There has not been a foreign attack on the U.S. homeland that would motivate the country to undertake a major national effort to preserve our freedom.
Kori Schake is a senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
