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ents deficit in the early 1800s, "the potential wealth of America" overcame any reluctance of international traders to deal with the U.S. America's "prairies, her forests, her as yet untapped mineral reserves, and above all . . . the ingenuity and daring of her people [were] always more than enough to secure her indebtedness to Europe, just as the potential value of the western lands was always more than sufficient to secure the loans made against them."«FN~«LM8»«RM73»«IP5,0»Charles M. Wiltse, «MDUL»The New Nation: 1800-1845«MDNM», (New York: Hill and Wang, 1961) 150.

» The economic growth of the U.S. inured to the benefit of its security as a whole throughout the 19th century; U.S. national security was not really in question even during the Civil War. The popular and political mentality of the government appears to have changed with the Spanish-American War (1898), in which Spanish aggression was played up by the American press, especially after publicity about an explosion on the American battleship «MDUL»Maine«MDNM» in Havana. There is evidence that the public opinion favoring U.S. entry into a war against Spain was generated and manipulated by newspaper coverage in the service of presumably damaged American business interests«FN~«LM8»«RM73»«IP5,0»Richard M. Basoco, "What Really Happened to the `Maine'?" «MDUL»American History Illustrated«MDNM» 1 (1966) 12.

» and that indeed the «MDUL»Maine«MDNM» may not have been sabotaged at all.«FN~«LM8»«RM73»«IP5,0»F.H. Panton, "Remember the Maine: Further Thoughts." «MDUL»Army Quarterly and Defence Journal«MDNM» 113 (1983) 54.

» Thus although U.S. natural security was not really in question, the Spanish-American War marked the first use of the national-security rationale either to intervene abroad or to justify dramatic policy shifts at home.

In the modern period of American history, the issue of national security has surfaced persistent...

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