Winning Like a Roman

What is the grand strategy of the United States? Historian James Lacey believes it can be identified in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution’s Preamble. Universal equality, domestic Tranquility, unalienable rights, and the Blessings of Liberty have been America’s “national grand strategy” from its inception, with occasional recapitulations as required by changing circumstances. Lacey, who has written extensively about American strategy in World War II, adds that FDR’s Four Freedoms became the “strategic phrasing” of World War II.