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(Copyright 2022) by Joseph B. Baity (Charlotte, North Carolina)   Historians commonly refer to the twentieth century as the American Century, mostly due to the overwhelming might of the United States military and its ever-increasing potential to impact the global geopolitics of the day. Prior to World War II, however, the U.S. was considered a regional power, with little political will to project itself militarily across the Atlantic or the Pacific oceans. Without that will, most observers deemed the U.S. too weak or too disinterested to match the rising Axis powers of Germany, Japan, and Italy. But the Japanese attack on Pearl […]