The breakdown of social order in the Middle East signifies the return of a competition between the world's great powers, including the US, Russia and China; however the “preponderance of power” and “enormous freedom of action” the US has enjoyed in the last decade has seen “its strategic muscles” atrophy, according to a top Pentagon official.
“The next 25 years will require the US to cooperate and compete with rising great powers Russia and China, and deal with the consequences of the breakdown of social order in the Middle East,” US Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said at a panel discussion at the Halifax International Security Forum, an annual event held in the Canadian city.
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