ABSTRACT
In the 2000s, the key issues for concern presents as terrorism and rogue states, and it is likely that they will continue to be issues, but it is improbable that they will still dominate the agenda as they did in the 2000s. The suicide attacks launched by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist movement on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001 helped ensure that the American government took a more determined position in warfare in the early 2000s than had been the case in the Balkans in the late 1990s, during the Bosnian and Kosovo conflicts. Weapons were not only bought by states. Striking against terrorist bases, as in Afghanistan, became part of an American doctrine of pre-emptive attack against hostile states. The Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) linked developments in weapon systems with a doctrine that meshed with theories of modernization that rest on the adoption of technological systems.
