ABSTRACT
Few of us who were raised and spent most of our lives in the many decades
spanned by the Cold War imagined at that time that the global security
environment of 2004 would end up being so drastically different from that of
its predecessor. The interwar years from the fall of the Soviet Union to the 11
September (‘9/11’) attack did not generate a clear consensus concerning
where the security environment was heading. In retrospect, the interwar years
represented a honeymoon period between the last of the great state-on-state
wars and the rise of the non-state-on-state wars. Then 9/11 hit and it became
clear to all, except to the most out of touch governmental bureaucrats, that
warfare had changed and we had to change with it.
