jDinOR Oregon
05/08/20 11:47 am
Although it is a factor, it is based on economic domination, something the U.S. has been at for a very long time. Don’t be fooled by the 11 page DOD report, everything is about the context and control of “The Mighty Dollar” and Terrorism/Terrorist ideology has the same purpose.
skinner Jersey City
05/07/20 5:23 pm
There’s definitely a compelling argument for this and we should take interstate competition seriously, but I disagree with the conclusion that it’s a bigger threat than terrorism. The reality is we are far less likely to have a nuclear war with Russia or China than we are to have a terrorist obliterate New York or Washington. This is especially true as North Korea and Iran become fully-fledged nuclear states given their proclivity to selling weapons of mass destruction to terrorists and petty despots around the world.
User123456789
05/07/20 5:07 pm
From the Summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy of the United States of America:
“Today, we are emerging from a period of strategic atrophy, aware that our competitive military advantage has been eroding. We are facing increased global disorder, characterized by decline in the long-standing rules-based international order—creating a security environment more complex and volatile than any we have experienced in recent memory. Inter-state strategic competition, not terrorism, is now the primary concern in U.S. national security.”
The rest of the document is linked in the poll.
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