National Strategy Future Threats and Defense Spending

<p>In the early 1990s the world has seen unprecedented changes in the global security environment that have drastically altered the balance of power and the manner in which nations of the world interact. The evolving international security environment has significant implications for the use of United States military forces in support of national strategic objectives. In the last two years the world has seen the fall of the Berlin wall the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact the death of Communism the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Simply stated the paradigm has broken. The comfortable albeit dangerous post-World War II world that we lived with has become more uncertain and unstable and potentially more dangerous. This study investigates the national security strategy of the United States by identifying threats to our interests our military forces and their employment and current defense budget trends. Using this as a baseline projections are made concerning the future security requirements in the Post-Cold War world. Post-Cold War national interests are discussed future threats and the military forces necessary to confront these threats are presented and necessary budget adjustments are developed.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p><br>