US policy has adopted force as a fundamental maxim contrary to Adams’ warning.

Evidence

For almost two hundred years, the United States has increasingly failed to heed this advice. Force has become one of America’s fundamental policy maxims. As Eisenhower would explain 140 years after Adams, military power has become a key organizing principle for the country’s political and economic systems. And as Adams suggested, the luster of global domination and power has proved false and self-defeating. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 1053