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The book includes a few graphs to justify this assertion about America's alliances, but its principal justification is theoretical: the costs to American security and the American people would have been much higher without them. Whether Rapp-Hooper takes the human inter-workings of alliances for granted or rates them beneath the other nominal benefits alliances offer cannot be said. There is a story about an American bureaucrat in the 1980s who wrote a strong memorandum warning of the dangers the Soviets posed to the strength of the Atlantic Alliance. [Extracted from the article]