America Beyond 2001 | Technology Rapidly Changes Society

Why doesn’t America know where it is going? U.S. foreign and military policy is swerving like a drunken driver without a map. It shows no clear grasp of our vital short-term national interests— let alone an understanding of the long-term shape of the global system.

We need to start by understanding that the old world map is obsolete—that the global system would be in revolutionary upheaval even if the Soviet Union still existed. We are undergoing the deepest rearrangement of global power since the birth of industrial civilization.

Until very recently, world power...

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