U.S. National Security -- The Next 50 Years
Published Date: October 1, 2000
Dr. Harold Brown is the sixth person to be presented with the Paul H. Nitze Award. In this paper he offers a broad overview of U.S. national security objectives and required military capabilities beginning with the Cold War and suggest policies to deal with security and political trends during the next 50 years such as the prospect of an adversarial alliance among rising and resurgent powers; outside military intervention in response to internal tyranny, ethnic conflicts, or other human rights issues; challenges to nation-states presented by supranational agencies and supranational currencies; and, economic globalization and technological advances.
