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Soon after taking office, in a speech at the National Defense University in Washington DC, President Barack Obama spelled out, as other presidents have in the past, the global role of the US when he said: ‘Now, make no mistake, this nation will maintain our military dominance. We will have the strongest armed forces in the history of the world’ (Johnson 2010: 185).
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Paul, E. (2012). The American Imperial Project. In: Neoliberal Australia and US Imperialism in East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137272782_5
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