Renewed Great Power Competition: Implications for Defense - Issues for Congress

Abstract

The emergence of great power competition with China and Russia has profoundly changed the conversation about U.S. defense issues from what it was during the post-Cold War era: Counterterrorist operations and U.S. military operations in the Middle East - which were moved to the center of discussions of U.S. defense issues following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 - are now a less-dominant element in the conversation, and the conversation now features anew or renewed emphasis on the following, all of which relate to China and/or Russia.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 07, 2021
Accession Number
AD1151928

Entities

People

  • Ronald O'Rourke

Organizations

  • Congressional Research Service

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Autonomous Weapons
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of State
  • Employment
  • Geography
  • Globalization
  • Governments
  • Gray Zone
  • Hybrid Warfare
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Supply Chain Integrity
  • Terrorism
  • Treaties
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Strategic Security Studies