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by Carl Conetta<\/span>, World Policy Journal<\/em>,<\/span> 01 July 2006.<\/span> \u27aa PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

The 2006 US Defense Review advanced two new strategic vectors for the US armed forces – one targets a putative “global Islamic insurgency”; the other puts America on a collision course with China.<\/p>\n

(A longer version of this article was published in November 2006 under the title The Near Enemy and the Far: The Long War, China, and the 2006 US Quadrennial Defense Review<\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Carl Conetta, World Policy Journal, 01 July 2006. \u27aa PDF The 2006 US Defense Review advanced two new strategic vectors for the US armed forces – one targets a putative “global Islamic insurgency”; the 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