At the time, it even seemed possible to imagine a gradual withering away of such great-power arsenals and the coming of a world liberated from apocalyptic nightmares.

Source: https://original.antiwar.com/william_astore/2023/05/07/nuking-the-promise-of-america/

The entrenchment of great-power competition means that sets of threats are multiplying across maritime, air, space, cyber and land domains.

Source: https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2023/11/16/culture-change-beyond-misconduct-addressing-systemic-barriers/

While this trend is more than two decades long, it has reached full maturity now with great-power competition with China becoming the organizing principle of U.S. foreign policy.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/opinion/international-world/us-china-russia-ukraine.html

With the return of war to Europe and the Middle East, as well as great-power competition to the world, NATO’s vision and scope need to be broader.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/12/21/nato-security-strategy-russia-china-war-geopolitics/