Accession Number:

AD1122836

Title:

Thinking about Deterrence: Enduring Questions in a Time of Rising Powers, Rogue Regimes, and Terrorism

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Monograph]

Corporate Author:

Air University Press

Personal Author(s):

• Lowther (Ed.), Adam

Report Date:

2013-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

345

Abstract:

We are in the postpostCold War era, and the strategic environment continues to shift before our very eyes. The US National Military Strategy notes that ongoing shifts in relative power and increasing interconnectedness in the international order indicate a strategic inflection point. The landscape at this inflection point is a mix of the familiar and the foreign. The United States remains the worlds preeminent power, as nation-states play the primary role in the globalized world they created. However, there are nation-states of increasing influence that were not coauthors of the existing rule sets and international norms. Many have a regional, not a global perspective, but their regional interests cannot be pursued without global effect. We do not yet know for certain how they will adapt and where they will challenge current structures. Instant global reach is a defining characteristic of the twenty-first century. It reinforces our interconnectedness and, at the same time, provides asymmetric opportunity to nonstate actors. Even now, there remain non-status-quo states that keep their populaces in the dark or subject them to information manipulation.

Descriptors:

• geography
• recreation
• international relations
• national politics
• international law
• contingency operations (military)
• weapons effects
• military organizations
• international organizations
• national security
• treaties
• political systems
• combat areas
• employment
• globalization
• intergovernmental organizations
• unmanned aerial systems
• game theory
• warning systems
• terrorism

Subject Categories:

• Government and Political Science
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]