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Crises--political, social, and economic--run rampant within Mother Russia's borders. Russian troops infiltrate the Crimean peninsula, the UN Security Council attempts to mediate concerning the conflict with Ukraine, and the United States pledges aid to former Soviet satellites--and civil war teeters on the brink of eruption. In the wake of the Sochi Olympics, it is Russia that is skating on thin ice, and Vladimir Putin's autonomous regime looks shakier by the minute. Ilan Berman shows the future of the country as grim and on the fast track to complete ruination. Is the end in sight for this former superpower? In Implosion, Berman explains why Russia's collapse is imminent and how this nation's ultimate demise will vitiate the United States.

For the United States, asymmetric warfare has emerged as the "new normal." The large-scale conventional campaigns that typified U.S. military engagements for much of the 20th Century are increasingly things of the past. Instead, the quarter-century since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet balance of power has seen irregular war truly come of age, with more and more hostile nations pursuing asymmetric means in order to secure the strategic advantage vis-à-vis the United States. In this volume, a group of leading national security practitioners and subject matter experts comes together to analyze the asymmetric strategies being pursued today by America's main state-based adversaries—Russia, China, Iran and North Korea—and to explore how U.S. policymakers can respond more effectively to them

Weldon, C.: Toward missile defense - the administration and Congress. - S. 1-10 Willimans J. D.: Sea-based defenses and the Aegis option. - S. 13-16 Huessy, P.: Ground-based missile defenses - the view from Greely. - S. 17-22 Cooper, H.: Spaced-base defenses - prospects for the future. - S. 23-28 Eisenstadt, M.: Iran - capabilities and intentions. - S. 31-36 Kay, D.: Iraq's missiles and weapons of mass destruction. - S. 37-42 Eberstadt, N.: The threat from North Korea. - S. 43-46 Wurmser, D.: The expanded "axis" - Libya and Syria. - S. 47-50 Payne, K.: Briefing on Pentagon missile defense activities. - S. 51-55 Fisher, R.: The emerging missile defense architecture in Asia. - S. 59-62 Berman, I.: Allies and opportunities in the Middle East. - S. 63-68 Adcock, S.: Europe and the U.S. : projects and possibilities. - S. 69-74 Woolsey, R. J.: Missile defense and the U.S.-Russian relationship. - S. 75-80 Gaffney, F. J. (jr.): The way ahead for the White House. - S. 81-84