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When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails. But nations without great military power face the opposite danger: When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like nails.

Robert Kagan

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Robert Kagan
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: September 26
Historian
Political Scientist
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