Fighting Fires with Data
Rachel Moltz
Mon, 08/07/2023 – 05:00
The author, a brigadier general in the Israel Defense Forces, is a contributor to the Hoover Institution’s Middle East and the Islamic World Working Group. He is the commander of the Dado Center for Interdisciplinary Military Studies.
World order as we have known it since the collapse of the Soviet Union is rapidly changing for the worse. Commentaries link that change with the emergence of Chinese economy and ambition, the rise of Russian nationalism, the decline of nation-states and the Arab states in particular, and more. But the defense community cannot escape the fact that a significant part of that worsening global order should be attributed to the decline of Western military deterrence. That decline is due not only to insufficient investments but even more so to the rapid erosion of Western military supremacy.
The pressing question the defense community faces is what can be done, from our perspective, to affect change in these realities.
Creative destruction
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Source:: Hoover Institution
