Strategic Effects of the Conflict with Iraq. Post-Soviet States

Abstract

An American-led war with Iraq will affect the international state system profoundly, particularly the potentially volatile set of regions that comprise the Former Soviet Union (FSU). Because the war with Iraq is not directly related to prevailing security conditions in the FSU, we can make the following predictions with reasonable certainty. Some, if not all, currently existing strategic factors in the FSU will continue, whether or not the United States goes to war with Iraq, and whether or not the war is short or long, conventional or one that witnesses the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and other forms of unconventional warfare

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA414398

Entities

People

  • Stephen J. Blank

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan
  • Asia
  • Central Asia
  • Cis
  • Governments
  • Local Governments
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Terrorism
  • Unconventional Warfare
  • United States
  • United States Central Command
  • United States European Command
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design