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“*At Our Own Peril: DoD Risk Assessment in a Post-Primacy World*.” That is the title of a study <https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1358> published by the US Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute. It is an update of the present world situation and an attempt to map out the main “risks” – meaning dangers – over the next ten years. The workers’ movement and every socialist should become familiar with this study, which shows the thinking of some of the most important strategists for the US capitalist class. *Three post-Cold War periods*The study maps out three main periods since the Cold War: 1. First was the period of unchallenged US domination world wide; 2. Second was the Post-9/11 period. It explains the “disruptive” nature of that “strategic shock”, and it criticizes the “national security bias and convention” that was and remains unable to deal with such shocks. 3. We are now in the “post primacy period which is “even more uncertain and faces a wave of fundamental change. They see five main characteristics of this present period: - *Hyper-connectivity and weaponization of information, disinformation, and* <https://oaklandsocialist.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/in-raqqa-syria.jpg> Islamic State on the march in Raqqa, Syria. They represent one of the main destabilizing forces for US capitalism in the world today. *disaffection;* - *A rapidly fracturing post-Cold War status quo;* - *Proliferation, diversification, and atomization of effective counter-U.S. resistance;* - *Resurgent but transformed great power competition; and finally,* - *Violent or disruptive dissolution of political cohesion and identity* *Read more: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2017/07/26/at-our-own-peril/ <https://oaklandsocialist.com/2017/07/26/at-our-own-peril/>* -- "No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them." Asata Shakur Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com and // www.facebook.com/WorkersIntlNetwork?ref=stream _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com