For decades, the US has leveraged the world’s greatest conventional and nuclear military forces to become a superpower that no country would dare attack.
But in 2017, the country finds itself under attack by nation-states in a way unseen since World War II amid a failure of one of the most important pillars of American strength: deterrence.
The US intelligence community has accused Russia of conducting cyberattacks on US voting systems and political networks during the 2016 presidential campaign and election. Cybersecurity experts also attribute a series of recent intrusions into US nuclear power plants to Russia.
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For decades, the US has leveraged the world’s greatest conventional and nuclear military forces to become a superpower that no country would dare attack.
But in 2017, the country finds itself under attack by nation-states in a way unseen since World War II amid a failure of one of the most important pillars of American strength: deterrence.
The US intelligence community has accused Russia of conducting cyberattacks on US voting systems and political networks during the 2016 presidential campaign and election. Cybersecurity experts also attribute a series of recent intrusions into US nuclear power plants to Russia.
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