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Apr 2011
The purpose of this analysis is to consider the relevance of military power today as well as for tomorrow. This is a subject that should give one pause before claiming a confident understanding of it. Major trends seem clear enough, but will they continue? The frequency with which history shows a liking for irony suggests that the future context for military power may be unlike that of today, in good part because the contemporary situation contains features that will be repudiated in the future in some mixture of thought, word, and deed.
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| Author | Colin S Gray |
| Series | SSI Monographs |
| Publisher | Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College (SSI) |
| Copyright | This publication is subject to Title 17, United States Code, Sections 101 and 105. It is in the public domain and may not be copyrighted. |