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May 2023

Congressional Newsletter

National Security

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Great-Power Competition Outside the Indo-Pacific and Europe

The United States has made countering the rise of China in the Indo-Pacific and checking Russian revanchism in Europe core priorities of its national security strategy. Historically, however, great-power competition and conflict have taken place outside the theaters of core concern to the competing powers.

New RAND research explores how the United States, China, and Russia might compete elsewhere in the world—primarily in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. The authors also look at where and why competition in these secondary theaters could turn into conflict, what form that conflict might take, and what implications the findings have for the United States.
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The China's PLA's Rocket Force conducts conventional missile tests off the eastern coast of Taiwan in this handout released on August 4, 2022, photo by EyePress via Reuters

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The 45th Space Wing supported NASA’s successful launch of Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station March 22, 2016, at 11:05 p.m. ET. The ULA Atlas V rocket carrying Cygnus cargo vessel OA-6 is a resupply mission to the International Space Station supporting NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services program, photo by United Launch Alliance

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