A More Peaceful World? Regional Conflict Trends and U. S. Defense Planning

Abstract

Ongoing wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, and else- where have led many policymakers to warn that the United States faces a world in which the relative peace of the immediate post Cold War era has been replaced by a world of escalating conflict and threats to U.S. security. Yet many U.S. defense decisions require a look beyond immediate crises and entail assumptions about the state of the world as it will be one, two, or even three decades in the future.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1053338

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  • Alexander Stephenson
  • Angela Omahony
  • Bryan A. Frederick
  • Colin P. Clarke
  • Jennifer Kavanagh
  • Matthew Lane
  • Stephen Watts
  • Thomas S. Szayna

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  • RAND Corporation

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