2. post-cold war era
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2. Post-Cold War Era. Threat???? Global Peace? No rival power? No rival ideology? Does US need a national security strategy anymore?. GHW Bush 1992 Defense Guidance Leaked and disavowed. Threat Emergence of a peer competitor Resurgent Russia China Regional powers (with WMD?) Iraq Iran - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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2. Post-Cold War Era
• Threat????
• Global Peace?
• No rival power?
• No rival ideology?
• Does US need a national security strategy anymore?
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GHW Bush 1992 Defense GuidanceLeaked and disavowed
Threat•Emergence of a peer competitor
– Resurgent Russia– China
•Regional powers (with WMD?)– Iraq– Iran– North Korea
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Hegemonic Realism?
Soviet superpower gone.
US superpower remains.
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GHW Bush StrategyMaintain Core Strategy
1.Nuclear Deterrence
2.Forward Presence
3.Peacetime Military Strength
4.Own the sea
5.NATO and other alliances
6.Free Trade and Commerce
7.Spread Democracy**
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Additions to Core Strategy
1. Missile defense2. Defense cuts
• Base force and Reconstitution
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3. US maintenance of global and regional balance of power
US
Russia China Europe Japan
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Balancer in Regional Relationships
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Crush Regional Aggressors; Reestablish Regional Balance of Power
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Clinton Idealist National Security
Replacing the Truman Doctrine?
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Threats?
• Regional Instability• Regional powers with WMD
– Iran, Iraq, N. Korea
• Threats to democratic transitions– Transnational problems • terrorism, drug trafficking, organized crime
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US Role?
• Building post-cold war order based on Liberal-democracy
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En-En Strategy
Innovations?
1.Free Trade and Commerce1. BEM
2.Spread Democracy**
3.NATO and other alliances
4.Nuclear Deterrence and missile defense
5.Forward Presence
6.Peacetime Military Strength
7.Own the sea
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New Elements of Strategy
1. Focus on regional threats
• Iran, North Korea
2. Human Rights and Humanitarian Crises
• Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia
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Humanitarian InterventionSomalia 1992-1994
The Ground
Bosnia 1995
The Air
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3. Power Projection US military activities everywhere
Combat
• Somalia• Haiti• Bosnia• Iraq• Sudan• Afghanistan• Kosovo• Taiwan Strait
Humanitarian
• Liberia• East Timor• Guinea-Bissau• Sierra Leone• Thailand/Cambodia• Central African
Republic• Gabon and Congo
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4. Two Overlapping Major Regional Contingencies (MRCs)
MRC One
MRC Two
Time
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5. Military Operations Other Than WarMOOTW