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

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
AD1201219

Entities

People

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

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Alliances
  • Combat Readiness
  • Delphi Method
  • Department Of Defense
  • East China Sea
  • Environment
  • Foreign Policy
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Nato
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • South Korea
  • Space Force
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.