<p>Lyle Jeremy Rubin deployed to Afghanistan in 2010 as a committed neoconservative. His experience serving there brought him face to face with the realities of war and empire. His book <em>Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming</em> tells the story of how he changed and came to support restraint in U.S. foreign policy. The Society's Patrick C. Fox interviews Rubin.</p>

Stephen Walt on Alliances, Restraint and The Blob

U.S. foreign policy for the future. Security Dilemma brings you conversations with the experts, policymakers, and thinkers charting new paths forward from the wreckage of recent decades and toward a national security and defense policy guided by prudence and restraint. Cohosts John Allen Gay and Patrick C. Fox bring you the information you need to shape a wiser approach. 
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