A year ago, when President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term, the chattering class was rife with predictions of his foreign policy priorities. The usual suspects, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, were high on the list. Few, however, predicted the outsize role that Venezuela would play. And fewer still expected that the White House would seize the Venezuelan dictator, Nicolás Maduro, in a daring raid. If unwittingly, Maduro provided the Trump administration with the opportunity to usher in a new era of American power, reestablishing and reinventing an old doctrine at a crucial moment on the international stage. At first glance, Venezuela is an unlikely setting. After all, Venezuela doesn’t have nuclear weapons. Nor was it actively trying to obtain them. Caracas is not Beijing. It is not an industrial titan...