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...withdrawn, a number of factors militate against this: unlike in the south Lebanon occupation zone, fighting the Israelis on home ground is a suicide mission; provoking Israeli retribution after the withdrawal carries the danger of turning the Lebanese population against Hezbollah, and Syria is unlikely to tolerate actions that threaten to draw it into a war. That may leave Hezbollah more inclined to reap their political rewards of their victory in Beirut than to keep slinging rockets into northern Israel...
Another challenge to America is a military one. Beijing has started a significant expansion of those parts of its military that will undercut the American presence in Asia unless we spend large sums to counter it. China is turning out hundreds of missiles that threaten the American bases on which U.S. military power is founded. With these bases under threat, our military capacity to be a player in Asia drops sharply. The U.S. may have a "global" military that can't play in the most important part of the world...
...this era of globalization there may be other such conflicts ahead. These will be minimal-risk campaigns, emphasizing aerospace power or ships at sea to threaten precision strikes from long range, with small, stealthy unmanned vehicles to collect information and deliver firepower, and they will be controlled by distant leaders using virtual command technologies. Even better, if we have the capability, will be cyberwar to scramble an enemy's military command or disrupt electricity systems without bloodshed...
Rogues such as Iraq, North Korea and Libya are much more dangerous because they might be reckless or desperate enough to threaten or use their capabilities for offensive and not merely defensive purposes. Keeping weapons of mass destruction out of their hands is a critical challenge, which will have to be met by constant bullying--and occasional bribing, along with better control over the materials and expertise from the former Soviet nuclear program. Just as critical will be maintaining a strong and credible nuclear and conventional deterrent so that even if rogues should manage to get terrible weapons, they will...
...robots and containerization did to the blue-collar world circa 1960. Installing these tools is not easy. The technical part is harrowing; the politics are horrendous. When the blue-collar robots arrived, the unions raised hell. This time it's management bureaucrats who are turning Luddite. Why? These tools threaten their cozy baronies, carefully crafted over several generations...