Correspondence: The Profitability of Primacy
Journal: International Security
Year: 2014

Daniel Drezner deserves credit for addressing arguments that link military primacy to economic benefits, which are typically considered only indirectly in the security studies subfield.1 Any plan for future U.S. military spending would profit from a thorough understanding of (1) whether primacy provides economic benefits that offset its costs, and if not, (2) whether other benefits that it provides may be worth those costs. Drezner does not adequately establish the former argument, however, and