ABSTRACT
This chapter provides critique and extrapolate from the findings of the statistical analyses. It assesses the utility of several models as it was tested alone and with the others. The chapter discusses how valid or useful these theories will be in the future as the world changes. It explains deriving essential lessons from all we have discovered about the political use of military force. The role of liberal idealism in the political use of military force is varied and complex. Any explanation of the political use of military force requires that all be considered even when one objective appears to be dominant. But how well will power and security interests, and their theoretical parent, realism, fare in accounting for US foreign policy behavior in general, and the political use of military force in particular, in the new age of American hegemony? Opportunities to use military force to advance the aims of liberal idealism abound at the moment.
