A War America Could Win

Ms. Foroohar is a global business columnist and an associate editor at The Financial Times.

The United States might be losing another war — one that could define the country’s security into the next century.

Military and commercial power are intertwined. Maritime power, in particular, has always played a crucial part in establishing and maintaining commercial power. America is learning this lesson the hard way.

For hundreds of years, the countries that have ruled the waves have ruled the world, as the 19th-century American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan put it. In an age of drones, we can be........

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