So defense executives need a new paradigm for how they deploy capital.

FORBES: Defense Contractors Are Going To Go For The Civilian Market

This is a comforting paradigm for people in the defense sector, because it implies there is more predictability to their business than the geopolitical forces driving demand might otherwise suggest.

FORBES: Why The Defense Industry May Never Bounce Back

In the four years of Mikhail Gorbachev's rule (including in recent months), there have been a number of features of Soviet foreign and defense policy that are difficult to reconcile with the optimistic Western paradigm for explaining Gorbachev's rule and future Soviet behavior.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The New Soviet Challenge

Notwithstanding these fundamentally changed circumstances, many policy-makers in the U.S. (particularly DoD) and Japan (particularly the Ministry of Defense and the LDP) seem locked in the old Cold War paradigm, with the target now seemingly being China.

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