American Grand Strategy

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American Grand strategy, beginning in the eighteen century, has developed across the modern, revolutionary and nuclear eras of grand strategy. It cannot be understood without a historical background. Its geography, political culture, and history have given it distinctive features, which, have shaped the evolution of grand strategy. These features of American history have created what some refer to as the exceptionalism of its grand strategy and foreign policy. From the beginning, during the Revolution era many colonies from countries like Spain, Netherlands, France, and Great Britain (mainly from the European continent) have established in North American continent. The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that led the Northern American to won its independence from Great Britain and become the United States of America. Since the United States has become powerfully established, this act found its expression in the Monroe Doctrine and in the general implications in European wars that dated from President George Washington’s first administration. Monroe Doctrine was a policy enforced for the opposition of the U.S. to the European Colonialization. The Doctrine …show more content…
Non-interventionism is a foreign and diplomatic policy that states that a nation should avoid alliances with other nations or avoid wars, unless it is self-defense, but still have diplomatic relations with them. In nineteenth century, the U.S. was asked by the French Emperor Napoleon II to “join in a protest to the Tsar Alexander II.”, but because of the non-interventionism policy they declined the offer, in order to defend it no matter how “straight, absolute, and peculiar as it may seem to other nations”. The main significant foreign intervention by the U.S. was at the end of the nineteenth century, between Spain and America, called the Spanish-American War, and also the Philippine–American