Alternative Strategic Environments, 1994-2004.

Abstract

The political military environment in which the U.S. armed forces will operate in ten to twenty years will be determined by a great number of factors including demographic trends, technological developments, patterns of economic growth, evolving societal attitudes and values, and trends in political relations among nations. The study identifies the most important of these factors and projects their likely condition around the turn of the century. The consequences of these projections for political/military relations within the several regions of the globe, and between key nations in each of those regions and the United States are then analyzed. Based on these functional and regional building blocks, five composite, alternative strategic environments are then described--and the implications of each for U.S. military planning are derived.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA159156

Entities

People

  • B. M. Blechman

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arms Control
  • Business Administration
  • Central America
  • Foreign Policy
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Investments
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Governments
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Political Systems
  • Treaties
  • Warfare

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  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union