Endgame of the Long Cold War

... made amply clear by Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanaghan’s message in the US Defense Department’s ... ... geopolitical rivalry between free and repressive world order visions, is the primary concern for U.S.... ... material sphere: the great military arc around the Eurasian heartland, ranging from the extension of NATO ... ... was thought to be its end with the collapse of the USSR and unilateral retrenchment of Russia, did not ... ... the Kissingerian formula of drawing in Russia and China into co-managing a world order that was unstable ...