Grand strategic calculation and risk assessment

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In an article written by Nathan Freier (2006), he states that:

"Today, the greatest risk to American position is not defeat at the hands of a peer competitor, but slow voluntary retreat from international activism hastened by a cultural aversion to grand strategic calculation and risk assessment. Quite simply, the end of American primacy may come via a persistent, unwelcome, and unanticipated accumulation of strategic costs, as successive American executives exercise great power without reference to grand design, and as average Americans, their most influential opinion elites, and those states upon whom the United States relies for support grow increasingly weary of the price associated with doing so. Absent a real ends-focused, ways and means-rationalized, and risk-informed grand design, the United States is vulnerable to slow surrender to strategic exhaustion and voluntary retreat from that essential activism necessary to the security of its position in perpetuity."
(Freier, N. (2006). Primacy Without A Plan. Parameters, 36(3). https://tinyurl.com/2597yc )

What do you think this quote means in terms of risk assessment? Do you agree or disagree? Why?
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