Biden’s Pointless ‘Global Posture Review’

Emma Ashford is appropriately withering in her comments on the Biden administration’s Global Posture Review:

The main problem with the posture review is that it was completely irrelevant. I’m honestly not sure how the Pentagon managed to take a year to come to such insipid conclusions.

Kelley Vlahos and I talked about this for our show last week, and we had the same reaction that Ashford had. It is remarkable how the Biden administration goes through the motions of lengthy reviews only to conclude at the end that the status quo is basically fine. We knew that Biden was going to be a status quo president overall, but it is strange that they are content to keep almost everything they inherited from Trump in place. This was true of their miserable review of sanctions policy, and it is true of this review process as well. When the sanctions policy review came out, I said this:

The absurdly long wait for the completion of this review might have been warranted if it had produced anything of value, but it proved to be nothing more than a waste of time and effort. They could have skipped going through the motions of a policy review and just admitted up front that nothing important would change.

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Daniel Larison is a weekly columnist for Antiwar.com and maintains his own site at Eunomia. He is former senior editor at The American Conservative. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.