title: The Future of War
abstract: Things aren't where we left them when we headed off into the mountains after 9/11.-David KilcullenOn 11 September 2001, the world experienced a cataclysmic event that has since defined U.S. national security policy. While the United shifted its focus to the increasing threat of transnational terrorism, globalization continued to wield its influence.At the most basic level, globalization is the integration of trade, ideas, services, information, technologies, and communications. A gradual movemen
journal: Military review