The Philosophy of Force in Foreign Policy: A Theory of the Just War.

The historical background of United States foreign policy highlights its erosion from a confident proponent of the American national interest to one of uncertainty and indecision. This has paralleled a similar decay in other public institutions, including the educational, the military, the economic the ecclesiastical and the political. The fundamental cause of these tragic symptoms has two facets the rejection of a Biblical-theological foundation for the public philosophy, and its replacement with secular humanism. Our growing difficulties with strategic nuclear deterrence and an increasingly aggressive Russian adventurism, and the loss of our leadership momentum in the international system will not be solved by new technology, weapons or new sociological methodologies.