ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the new world conditions as a prelude to offering a revised national security strategy. The implications for military security and alliance structure are large. Syria and Libya, two nations dedicated to rearranging the map of dominance and control in the Islamic world, have been armed far beyond the needs of their own security by the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc in Europe. The industrialized world, instead of trying to calm the source of instability that threatens its own security by denying that source the most dangerous capabilities of modern weaponry, is fueling the fires and prolonging as well as heightening the threat to its own security. The loss of economic initiative is especially troubling in the international security area. In addition to changes in the military condition of the major powers, the Third World is growing apace in military strength.
