Alternative Futures Following a Great Power War Volume 1, Scenarios, Findings, and Recommendations

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Defense has been increasingly focused on competition with Russia and China and, in the extreme, the possibility of great power war. To inform thinking about what might follow such a war, RAND researchers generated four hypothetical near-term great power war scenarios and assessed how the postwar strategic environment would change in each scenario. These scenarios offer planners and decisionmakers plausible narratives about future great power wars with different features to help them examine assumptions and think about how wartime choices could affect postwar U.S. objectives.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 15, 2023
Accession Number
AD1201218

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  • Alexandra T. Evans
  • Anika Binnendijk
  • Asha Clark
  • Bryan A. Frederick
  • Cortez A. Iii Cooper
  • James Benkowski
  • Karl P. Mueller
  • Miranda Priebe
  • Stephanie A. Pillion

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  • RAND Corporation

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