During the 1990s the CIA struggled to reinvent itself in the post-Cold War era.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Vice Admiral Burkhalter opened the Roundtable with an informative look at the "big picture" -- the strategic environment in the post-Cold War era and its implications for U.S. security interests.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Future of US naval supremacy

Although no effort was made to reach a consensus or to adopt specific recommendations, the general sentiment appeared to be that the post-Cold War era is increasingly characterized by portentous challenges and ominous instability.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

The Center believes that the illusions of the fleeting "Post-Cold War" era must now be replaced with a more realistic view of Western security requirements in the Post-Kuwait world.

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And it is rather remarkable, if you think about it, even as it deals with its challenges and as it has dealt with them in the past, what Europe looks like today, now unified in the post-Soviet era and the end of the Cold War, compared to what it looked like in 1945 or 1955.

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