Is There a New Peer Competitor in Your Future. How Will You Know. What Should You Do About It.

摘要

Nearly 50 years of the cold war experience has made the United States proficient at building coalitions to contain or defeat explicit military threats. We did it in Europe with NATO, prepared to fight a major war against the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. We did it on an ad hoc basis in the Persian Gulf five years ago, putting together a multinational coalition to expel Iraq from Kuwait. We still do in Northeast Asia, with forces on the territories of the bilateral security partners, Japan and South Korea, to defend the latter against North Korea.