Impact of the new global environment on U.S. national security planning-Challenges to the Operational Research OR community

Recent events have changed the world political/military environment from a relatively stable bi-polar one to one with much less regional stability. This paper will describe the impacts of this change on U.S. national security planning. It summarzes the global and national security environment changes, corresponding changes in the analysis activity to support national security planning, some approaches used to conduct analyses in the new environment, and some emerging results.