Post Cold War
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Introduction
American security policy and the strategies which it chooses to employ have evolved considerably since the end of the Cold War. The security climate during the Cold War was characterized by two superpowers the US and USSR who possessed a great deal of military and economic power as well as well as extremely destructive nuclear weapons. These factors shaped the basis of American security policy during the Cold War era. Highlights of this policy included an avoidance of direct armed conflict with the USSR due to the mutually assured destruction (MAD) that would ...