@inbook{10.7249/mg729navy.18, ISBN = {9780833045621}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/mg729navy.18}, abstract = {This chapter highlights important insights from the preceding chapters. We begin with a summary of important domestic and near-abroad challenges for each of the three primary countries. We then describe common or related trends that are important to all of the nations. Finally, we focus on the likely implications for the U.S. defense establishment in general and the U.S. Navy in particular.The United States has today, and will have into the far term, by far the world’s strongest economy. Unlike China, the United States will “get rich before it gets old.” That does not mean that the United States}, bookauthor = {John Gordon and Robert W. Button and Karla J. Cunningham and Toy I. Reid and Irv Blickstein and Peter A. Wilson and Andreas Goldthau}, booktitle = {Domestic Trends in the United States, China, and Iran: Implications for U.S. Navy Strategic Planning}, edition = {1}, pages = {159--170}, publisher = {RAND Corporation}, title = {Conclusions}, year = {2008} }