TY - BOOK AU - TALENT Jim TI - A new American mission PY - 2008/// KW - UNITED STATES KW - GLOBAL POLITICS N2 - Calls for America to take a firm lead in defining global strategy because no other country or group of countries currently has the capacity to do so. However the U.S. should do this as far as possible through cooperation and consensus, and should plan rather than react. (Author is a former U.S. Senator and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.) ER -