And, up until the early cold war period, Canadian public opinion was quite in favour of the United States.

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In many ways, the post-Cold War period resembles the interwar interregnum, during which military powers experimented with new technologies, organizations, and doctrine.

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The reason: to start enlarging the 16-nation defense alliance and to discuss reorganizing the alliance's military structure to take into account the new challenges of the post-Cold War period.

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But as nuclear and missile technology has proliferated in the post-Cold War period, and more technologically primitive countries get their hands on missiles and limited nuclear capabilities, the threat of an EMP attack as become far more acute.

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In the late Cold War period, and during the nineteen-nineties, the Army embraced what became known as the Powell Doctrine, which emphasized the decisive use of overwhelming force in conventional wars, as well as the enunciation of clear exit strategies for U.S. troops.

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He had grown up with memory of the post-war period and the Cold War.

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However, as the U.S.-Soviet Cold War structure collapsed, and the world economy entered an unprecedented period of globalization, the 1980s Japanese economy bubble burst.

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