Book Introduction: Strategy in the Contemporary World Introduction and review

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The factors that occupied the resources required for competition in the Cold War, in addition to the allies, were most of the governments dependent on one of the two superpowers, which helped in reducing international conflicts. Today, strategists face a complex environment of related security issues; an environment that is very different to address from the security of the Cold War era, which was based on the balance of terror between America and the Soviet Union. However, with the resolution of tensions between East and West in the 1990s, strategic studies were viewed merely as a subject of the Cold War. On this basis, new developments in international politics were not examinable through this field. The authors of this book state their goal as identifying, defining, and applying traditional concepts of strategy within the emerging security environment, characterized by globalization, the information revolution, new threats arising from international terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and ethnic and regional conflicts. The first chapter of this section includes a discussion on the evolution of strategy, which examines the history of human thought regarding the use of military tools to achieve political goals. The third chapter of this section addresses the thought regarding the causes of war as a very complex issue that shapes non-violence perspectives, and the author believes that no cure for the disease of war has been created yet. The fourth section also addresses new security issues in the fields of environment, resources, migration and diseases, examines, and addresses the role that strategy and military organizations can play in responding to threats.