Considering the Laird’s insight shows effective strategic guidance for defense issues faced by US, because today, the country has been going through distinct challenges both in domestic and foreign environment, which are similar of the time the outline was proposed. US has recently recovered from long war and encountering the similar issue including fiscal constraints, security threat, resourcing issues and nuclear threat. The Melvin Laird’s peace strategy, however, cannot be fully applied in today’s environment due to changing nature of external factors. Therefore, it is conclude that certain strategies related to fiscal constraints, security threat, resourcing present in the strategy can be applied in today’s situation but nuclear policy cannot be applied.
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