First, as Sir Lawrence Freedman, the war's official historian, summarises, Britain would indeed struggle to recover the islands if they were overrun again but defending them in the first place would be much easier, because of the men and kit now deployed there.

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As British foreign policy expert Lawrence Freedman pointed out, American power is based on alliances rather than colonies, and is associated both with an ideology that encourages individual aspirations and with a system that provides the means for people to achieve them.

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As British foreign policy expert Lawrence Freedman has pointed out, American power is based on alliances rather than colonies, and is associated both with an ideology that encourages individual aspirations and with a system that provides the means for people to achieve them.

FORBES: Think Again: America's Best Days Are Still Ahead