About the book: 2018 / The book discusses foreign policy USA in the context of increasing likelihood of low-intensity armed conflicts. The United States faces serious challenges, the main reasons for which are obvious imperial overextension and a lack of resources to meet the challenge of maintaining American global leadership. The growth of the military-technical potential of such non-Western centers of power as Russia and China has forced official Washington to take a fresh look at the likelihood of low-intensity conflicts, both with non-state actors and with other states, and the consequences of these conflicts for the US military. US ruling circles are forced to pay special attention to so-called hybrid conflicts. During such conflicts, non-state actors are able to quickly transform into fairly effective quasi-states. In these conditions, official Washington pays great attention to the development of the latest means of armed warfare, and here the United States has large technological reserves, especially with regard to high-precision weapons on short-, short- and medium-range carriers, as well as missile defense systems in theaters of military operations.