Diasporas, Foreign Governments, and American Politics An Excerpt from 'Merging America with the World,' in Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity

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Editor's note: In a March 2017 Speechgiven by General of the Russian Army Valery Gerasimov, he observed that modern wars would likely be fought mainly by means other than martial weapons.He alluded to the concept that the primary purpose of war is to achieve a nation’s political objectives, and there are increasingly a host of other potential means, informational and sociological, to achieve such objectives without resorting to violent military conflict. Such an observation highlights that the traditional concept oj national security in the twenty-first century is being severely tested along with the very concept of the nation-state itself as the global population continues to explode, cheap and available mass communication proliferates, and international borders are weakened by a range of factors including ease of transnational transport and shifting political allegiances.