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TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01and their ability to leverage the international media, the global Islamic insurgency is the bestknown and possibly the most influential today. However, feminist movements, healthmovements, and religious communities achieve similar exposure and success. Sheer numbersand worldwide participation ensure that their concerns are able to influence decision makers inthe political, economic, and social arenas. Continued globalization and access to IT willencourage and enable the formation of many more such movements in the future OE.The competition between these entities and the nation-state and the internal competitionamong these entities can manifest itself in a wide variety of actions. While cooperation andpeaceful competition will most likely remain the norm, there will be instances where thecompetition will result in violent conflict. While these competitions will strengthen legitimateinternational, regional, and national governance, they can conversely leave us with failed orfailing states, ungoverned areas, instability, rogues states, and safe havens for criminal or terroristorganizations. The trends in geo-politics and governance leave the U.S. with many opportunitiesto advance the human condition. The U.S. must successfully meet these challenges to temperglobal chaos.2-4. The Domestic EnvironmentAs a player on the global scene, the U.S. responds to the global trends that shape theinternational political, social, economic, and securityenvironments. At the same time, the U.S. is experiencing When we assumed the Soldier wemany of these same trends internal to our Nation. did not lay aside the citizen.Together, these external and internal influences shape theGeorge Washingtonfuture U.S. domestic environment. This environment inturn, shapes the human capital that forms the human dimension. Appreciation of the futuredomestic environment and its implications for the physical, cognitive, and moral components ofthe human dimension is essential.GlobalizationThe U.S. from the beginning has been one of the drivers of globalization and one of theleading benefactors of its economic and social benefits. There is a real danger that the U.S. islosing its economic and military dominance, and, along with it, its preeminent position as leaderof western civilization. The cold war provided a basis for a clearly articulated national securitypolicy. The competition between the democratic West and the communist, largely Soviet, blocnations motivated the people of the U.S. to become world leaders in S&T, industry,manufacturing, and education. Since our perceived victory in the cold war, the trends havereversed and statistics indicate that we have lost much of this leadership. As global trends raisethe level of the U.S.’ economic, political, and even military competition, the domesticenvironment continues to challenge its ability to meet that competition.39