Reading fellow Harvard grad Allison Stanger's One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power And the Future of Foreign Policy, which I was prescient enough to include in a Great Powers footnote, along with citing a NYT op-ed she penned.

Thing is, Allison's book had a different title (apparently, non-working) back then:

279. By the time we reached the year 2000 . . . representing another 4 to 5 percent.
For data, see Allison Stanger and Omnivore (graphic design firm), "Foreign Policy,
Privatized," New York Times, October 5, 2008. See also Allison Stanger, Empire of the
Willing: Why Outsourcing Is the Future of American Foreign Policy--and Why We Have
to Get It Right (New York: Basic Books, 2009).

My title verdict: far better main title now, but I liked the old subtitle better--for its optimism.

Definitely a WPR column out of this.