Strategic Thinking in an Era of Persistent Conflict

摘要

In Speeches In September and October 2007, Army Chief of Staff General George Casey coined the phrase "era of persistent conflict," by which he meant "a period of protracted confrontation among states, nonstates, and individual actors, who are increasingly willing to use violence to achieve their political and ideological ends." Among the instigators of persistent conflict are believers in extremist ideologies that contradict our core values and our concept of civilization and 1,100 terrorist organizations seeking to take advantage of failed and failing states.