Since 2001, the United States has endured a tumultuous period, one
dominated by the 9/11 attacks and all that has followed: the war on
terrorism, the Afghan and Iraqi campaigns, looming confrontations
with known or suspected proliferators of weapons of mass
destruction, and episodic explosions of mass violence in
chronically unstable regions. In this second half of the decade,
these and related strategic challenges will test the skill,
tenacity, and imagination of the current and the next U.S.
administration and the American public. How well these challenges
are managed then, or mastered, will greatly influence whether
future historians look back upon this decade as a dangerous passage
toward a more peaceful, globally connected order or as a descending
path into an ever more fragmented, violent world.This volume
explores seven looming, as yet unmastered strategic challenges
facing the United States. Each chapter tackles one of the following
challenges: tackling global terrorism, stopping WMD proliferation,
undertaking defense transformation, protecting the homeland,
strengthening relations with allies and partners, engaging other
major powers, and defusing conflicts in unstable regions. Each
chapter takes a similar approach: defining the problem at hand
(i.e., a short discussion of relevant trends); explicating current
U.S. efforts to master the challenge (i.e., U.S. objectives,
methods, degree of success or setbacks); and analyzing looming
choices that U.S. policymakers will face in the next decade and, as
appropriate, the consequences of alternative courses of action.
"Strategic Challenges" capitalizes on the great regional and
topical expertise of the INSS professional research staffto present
an authoritative overview of the global strategic environment
facing the United States.
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