Is There a New Peer Competitor in Your Future? How Will You Know? What Should You Do About It

Abstract

Nearly 50 years of the cold war experience has made the United States proficient at building coalitions to contain or defeat explicit military threats. We did it in Europe with NATO, prepared to fight a major war against the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. We did it on an ad hoc basis in the Persian Gulf five years ago, putting together a multinational coalition to expel Iraq from Kuwait. We still do in Northeast Asia, with forces on the territories of the bilateral security partners, Japan and South Korea, to defend the latter against North Korea.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA441997

Entities

People

  • Ion L. Lellenberg

Organizations

  • National War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asia
  • Cold War
  • Commerce
  • Economic Development
  • Far East
  • Indian Ocean
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Lessons Learned
  • Markets
  • National Security
  • North Korea
  • Second World War
  • South Asia
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation and International Security