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Date: 2007-11-01 (Thursday)
Unipolar World: USA as one of the most powerful states
Unipolarity. By almost every reasonable measure the United States emerged from the Cold War as one of the most powerful states in history.
(a) Its population exceeded that of any other great or middle power except China and India, and has continued to grow.
(b) Its GDP was (and remains) two or three times that of its closest economic competitor.
(c) Even after post-Cold War reductions, U.S. military spending exceeded the combined defense budgets of most of the other large powers in the world; today it exceeds the defense spending of the rest of the entire world combined.
(d) U.S. military technology sets the world standard;
(e) its strategic nuclear and conventional forces are peerless.
(f) The United States had (and retains) command of the global commons—the sea, the air and space
(g) U.S. technical capabilities for intelligence collection far eclipse those of any other state. (Indeed, the U.S. intelligence budget alone has roughly equaled the entire defense budgets of Britain or France, two of the world’s most capable military powers, and the only ones other than the United States with any global reach.)
(h) The United States also enjoyed (and still enjoys) a favorable geographical position—with weak and friendly neighbors to the north and south, oceans to the east and west.
(i) The Cold War network of global alliances, coupled with massive investments in strategic lift, gave the U.S. military the ability to put large forces almost anywhere there is a coastline. In 1991, five U.S. divisions reached Saudi Arabia in four months, and nearly ten in six months.
-- According to Barry R. Posen, in his article, The Case for Restraint -- Foreign policy after George W. Bush






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