Every civilized country in the world was affected in some way. The United States struggled to contain the Soviet Union, while the Soviet Union reciprocated on the United States. Both countries had enormous power and threatened to unleash it at any moment. Thankfully neither country unleashed much as the United States was able to outspend the Soviets causing their government to collapse. The United States then emerged as the world’s only superpower and began facing down entirely different threats.

Now the game has new players with a new set of moves that are far less predictable. The balance is removed and the threat increased. These new players use unpredictable tactics such as support of global terrorist organizations and proliferation of weapon systems to other unfriendly states. These tactics cannot be contained from the outside. Only by changing the leadership can the United States alter these threats.

It must be pointed out that the circumstances between containment during the Cold War and the “New World Order” of states are completely different. These circumstances include differences in leadership styles, differences in the strengths of opposed countries, and the “new” threat of terrorism. All of these differences require closer examination.

ts were posed by rouge nations. During the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union had armed such nations in order to gain influence and control over them. This would strengthen their hand against one another. Now without a world divided into two large camps, these rouge nations were eager to slip out from the shadows of the superpowers. This presented obvious problems for the world’s last superpower as it struggled to retain influence and dominance over the world.

The leadership differences between the rogue states of today and that of the Soviet Union d

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