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Project 2025 1992 report that looks ahead and tries to predict the global situation in 2025. "INTRODUCTION "How the Great Democracies Triumphed, and Were Able to Resume the Follies Which Had so Nearly Cost Them Their Life. -- Winston Churchill "It is an endearing but unfortunate American characteristic to conclude a war by saying, "It's over, we've won, let's bring our troops home." We paid a bitter price for such shortsightedness in 1941 and again in 1950. Yet surely the prospects for peace in 1919 and 1945 looked as promising as they do today. We were lucky that the Cold War of the last 40 years did not result in a cataclysmic hot war that civilization could not have survived. American will, strength, and sacrifice produced our third strategic victory of the 20th century. It would be an unforgivable delusion, however, to behave as though we are now ineluctably entering an age of universal and endless peace and harmony. In the short term we can certainly afford to reduce our defense expenditures as the immediate threat to our security recedes. We cannot, however, allow ourselves, over the long term, to become weak and risk being unprepared for the unseen danger that may lie hidden
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Conspiracy Theory · United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Forecasting · Military requirements · Military strategy · National security · Deterrence · Military planning · Military personnel · Risk · Threats