During his later years, Kennan concluded that "the general effect of Cold War extremism was to delay rather than hasten the great change that overtook the Soviet Union".
Rachel Kadish, reflecting on her own superimposition of the founding of Israel onto Watership Down, has remarked "Turns out plenty of other people have seen their histories in that book...some people see it as an allegory for struggles against the Cold War, fascism, extremism...a protest against materialism, against the corporate state.
During our decades of experience in the U.S. military, we have addressed many national security challenges, from containment and deterrence of the Soviet nuclear threat during the Cold War to political extremism and transnational terrorism in recent years.
Afghanistan is an ancient land plagued in recent times first by cold war geopolitics and then by Islamic extremism.
Less than a year before Alexandre Bissonnette walked into a Quebec City mosque and took six lives in cold blood, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) stopped monitoring right-wing extremism.
Consider how the flood of millions of Afghan refugees into Pakistan after the Cold War drained Pakistan and led to an explosion of extremism, while American leaders were too busy celebrating the Cold War victory to fret about the Af-Pak aftermath.
They attribute the growth in refugee numbers to violence and instability spurred by the end of the cold war, technological changes, resource extraction and the rise of Islamic extremism.
"Our current arrangements, designed for the cold war, must give way to the new demands of the war against extremism and other evolving 21st-century challenges," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said.
Over the past two decades, MI6 has had to adapt to new national security threats from Islamic extremism, cyber attacks and nuclear proliferation, while coping with a return to Cold War-levels of mistrust in relations with Moscow.
With American foreign policy focused on Cold War rivalries, Jenkins filed reports drawing attention to increased incidents stemming from political extremism in Europe, including terrorist bombings and political kidnappings.
