# Washington Rules Subtitle: *America's Path to Permanent War*. Names the bipartisan national-security consensus in two parts. The **credo**: America alone leads, saves, liberates, and organizes the world. The **sacred trinity**: a global military presence, forces configured for global power projection, and standing readiness to intervene. Bacevich's central claim is that this package belongs to the permanent national-security class rather than to any party, which is why it survives every election intact. ## See Also - [[Andrew Bacevich]] — the author - [[Militarism]] · [[Forever Wars]] · [[Military-Industrial Complex]] [[Works Hub]]