The US led western coalition militaries are all now pivoting to peer level(Russia/China) military threats.
Russia was a great power in great decline, but still capable of great disruption(Georgia/Ukraine).
China is a great power with great momentum.
But this is not another Cold War.
During the Cold War the world was largely bifurcated into competing networks based on ideology.
Nations switching from one network to another were rare and switching costs were high.
Now in a highly integrated global economy value proposition is what matters and switching costs for nations is much lower.
Having 1 billion daily active users in the developing world on a Superplatform(Facebook/WeChat) is worth more than the 1 trillion sunk cost invested in Supercarriers(Nimitz/Ford Class).
This is not another Cold War, it is ruthless and relentless competition between competing value propositions.
Russia was a great power in great decline, but still capable of great disruption(Georgia/Ukraine).
China is a great power with great momentum.
But this is not another Cold War.
During the Cold War the world was largely bifurcated into competing networks based on ideology.
Nations switching from one network to another were rare and switching costs were high.
Now in a highly integrated global economy value proposition is what matters and switching costs for nations is much lower.
Having 1 billion daily active users in the developing world on a Superplatform(Facebook/WeChat) is worth more than the 1 trillion sunk cost invested in Supercarriers(Nimitz/Ford Class).
This is not another Cold War, it is ruthless and relentless competition between competing value propositions.