MANAGING THE TWIN CHALLENGES OF COMPETITION AND COOPERATION
Christopher J. Bolan and Joel R. Hillison | 04.19.22
Managing the Twin Challenges of Competition and Cooperation
This article is part of the contribution made by the US Army War College to the series “Compete and Win: Envisioning a Competitive Strategy for the Twenty-First Century.” The series endeavors to present expert commentary on diverse issues surrounding US competitive strategy and irregular warfare with peer and near-peer competitors in the physical, cyber, and information spaces. The series is part of the Competition in Cyberspace Project (C2P), a joint initiative by the Army Cyber Institute and the Modern War Institute. Read all articles in the series here.
Special thanks to series editors Capt. Maggie Smith, PhD, C2P director, and Dr. Barnett S. Koven.
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy challenged the United States to land on the moon by the end of the decade. Space, the final frontier, presented an opportunity for both competition and cooperation with the Soviet Union. Sixty years later, the United States and the largest Soviet successor state, Russia, find themselves somewhere between competition and cooperation. In many ways, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine highlights the differences in great power competition today from that with the Soviet Union. Though technically and numerically inferior, Ukraine has imposed heavy costs on Russia’s military. Non-state actors, such as SpaceX, have provided satellite communications to the government in Kiev and presented NASA an alternative to Russian government-owned cargo flights to the space station. While unprecedented sanctions have been imposed upon Russia, Russia allowed a US astronaut to return to Earth on a Russian spacecraft despite threats to the contrary. So, what does this mean for great power competition?
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