Глобальное военное присутствие во внешней политике США: аспекты американской стратегической культуры

American strategic culture is characterized by a unique set of values, beliefs, and principles that distinguish it from other national strategic cultures. These include: a puritanical work ethic, the concept of American exceptionalism, the spirit of the frontier, the promotion of democratic values, the idea of global leadership, and an emphasis on military and technological superiority. These elements contributed to the continuity and evolution of the American strategic worldview, despite the peculiarities of the US party system, the influence of political discourse and global events such as the two World wars, the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The destructiveness of the American strategic culture is conditioned by the promotion of a liberal world order based on the actions of international political institutions that adhere to the rules of the game initiated by the United States of America. These rules consider the interests of only Americans and their satellites and do not provide for the equal existence of other states in the system of international relations due to the active American idea of their own exclusivity and God-chosen. The purpose of this article is to explore how American strategic culture has influenced modern US foreign policy in relation to the implementation of the direction of network block alliances. To achieve this goal, document analysis methods were used to uncover the doctrinal foundations of US foreign policy, a systematic approach, and institutional analysis to study network block systems involving the United States in the modern world. The study revealed that the destructive nature of the US network approach is the result of the use of indirect strategies in US foreign policy, as exemplified by military alliances in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as these alliances are seen as a continuation of traditional US foreign policy practices.