Our elevator speech:

By marrying “don’t tread on me” to “to each his own” – by reinvigorating sovereignty – the U.S. could help restore order to the world.  By getting other countries to self-police, the U.S. would no longer have to engage in global policing or nation building.  We Americans would be free to safely repair our own social fabric.  We could do so without turning isolationist.  Instead, by reprising our role as an exemplar – by saying loudly and clearly “we’ll be us, you be you” – we’d free others to make as much as possible of their sovereignty, too.  Just imagine how different the world might be if foreign leaders were held accountable for the actions of their citizens; if in exchange for the deference they receive as heads of state their duty were to guarantee security to their citizens and to us, they’d have to deliver better services.  This is the quid pro quo sovereignty promises.

Who:

The Sovereignty Solution grows out of a summerlong seminar held at the Naval Postgraduate School in 2006.  Seminar participants included: three Army Special Forces officers (more commonly referred to as Green Berets), two Army Civil Affairs officers, a Navy SEAL, a commander of one of the Air Force’s special operations weather detachments, a former armor turned Psychological Operations officer, a military intelligence officer, and an A-10 pilot who recently served as an instructor at the Air Force’s version of Top Gun.

What:

An office in the Pentagon presented this challenge: given some major shock, think through what should be put in place today in order to be able to shift national strategy overnight

The disclaimer:

What is true for the book also holds for this website.  The views expressed here do not represent those of the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense, or any office of the U.S. Government.