Security and Intelligence in the Post-Cold War World

Abstract

The end of the Cold War raised a number of expectations, among them the prospect of a net reduction in the world's stock of armament overkill, whether nuclear or conventional. It quickly became apparent that these expectations were naive. To be sure, the Red Army may self-destruct or more or less disintegrate, as a by-product of the disappearance of the Soviet Union as a state. The United States, on the other hand, has shown no inclination to reduce significantly its military might. President Bush's declaration of a New World Order and the killing frenzy of Desert Storm in the Gulf showed that the end of the Cold War is a distinctly asymmetrical process.