The End of Hegemony

<p>The era of US global hegemony is drawing to a close. Within the next quarter century revolutionary technological developments and new military capabilities will fracture the geopolitical strategic landscape propelling today's near peer states into a parity position with the US. A shift to an information-centric globe will see ongoing conflict over the control of information through the new global commons of space and cyberspace. Technological advances in these areas coupled with the deterrent value of nuclear weapons will reduce the effectiveness of US conventional forces and US interests will be challenged on a global scale. A new reality of continuous conflict over information will emerge in space and cyberspace where it will not be possible for a single state to maintain dominance. Through a deliberate focus on information and space control technologies China and Russia are positioned to gain strategic military parity with the United States resulting in the emergence of a new tri-polar world. Three examples of technologies critical to the conflict over information control are explored: information warfare space operations and nuclear weapons. The Chinese have embarked on a campaign of Informationization; to attain mastery of both the electromagnetic spectrum and the global cyber sphere. This approach includes the attempted dominance of air space and cyber mediums through cyber operations information operations electronic attack and kinetic attack.</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>