What is hard and soft power?
Army News Service Release Date: 9/29/2003 By Spc. Bill Putnam WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Sept. 29, 2003) — The U.S. needs to develop a strategy to make soft and hard power compliment each other, Dr. Joseph Nye Sept. 25 said. There’s no doubt the U.S. is great at applying the hard power of the military, Nye said. But leading by example, showing people we’re in line with what they want and economic assistance — the ultimate show of soft power — will make applying U.S. power easier, said Nye, the dean of the Kennedy School for Government at Harvard University. Nye and a few other luminaries in the Washington, D.C., foreign policy think tank spoke during the first day of the two-day Eisenhower Series Sept. 25 and 26. For example, hard power can be used to kill Osama bin Laden or Mullah Omar, but soft power should be used to attract moderate Muslims. Investing in soft power is a good way to beat bin Laden, Nye said. AIDS research and, most importantly, economic assistance shows “peop
