I noticed in the January 19, 1998 issue of *The New Republic* an article
by Eliot Cohen. He basically says that the Pentagon, and the “American
people,” should get used to the fact that “the United States needs an
imperial strategy. … that is, in fact, what the United States at the
end of the twentieth century is—a global empire.” And we need a
revamping of the entire defense structure to deal with the problems of
this situation, not the problems of “two hypothetical major theater
wars.”

An interesting idea. Do we have any Brits out there who’d care to
comment?

Timothy L. Francis
Historian
Naval Historical Center
email address: Francis.Timothy@nhc.navy.mil
voice: (202) 433-6802

The above remarks are my opinion, not those of the U.S. Navy or the
Department of Defense