The 'Defense of Smaller Powers' Is a Recipe for Unnecessary War

Major powers have often blundered into avoidable wars because of a desire to defend smaller powers when they did not need to fight.

Danielle Pletka wrote a confused article in support of the proposition that the U.S. should be willing to fight unnecessary wars for non-allies:

China has spread, unchecked, into the South China Sea and Hong Kong. And while the United States, Japan, and Australia begin to up their game in the region, ambiguous rumblings from Washington regarding the defe…