To compete and thrive in the 21st century, democracies, and the United States in particular, must develop new national security and economic strategies that address the geopolitics of information. In the 20th century, market capitalist democracies geared infrastructure, energy, trade, and even social policy to protect and advance that era’s key source of power—manufacturing. In this century, democracies must better account for information geopolitics across all dimensions of domestic policy and national strategy.
Following up on the October 2002 debate on whether or not to invade Iraq William Kristol and John Deutch debate the question of "Iraq: Should We Withdraw Now?" Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, and staunch proponent of the war, contends that