Oh what to consider in the new world order?....  This article ponders that.

"A fresh strategy forged in 2008 that looked out for eight to ten years would focus not on a single threat from a nuclear Soviet Union but on multiple threats from terror, from nuclear proliferation to rogue states like North Korea and Iran, and from a militant Islam that few in the West seem to understand.

The strategic review that Mr. Skelton called for would assess possible threats from potential adversaries in an emerging China, a resurgent Russia, and a restless Latin America that the US has long ignored. It would consider a retrenchment in the deployments of American forces that have been stretched further than those of Julius Caesar's Rome, the Mongols under Genghis Khan, and the British Empire.

The new strategy might set fresh priorities in America's alliances, giving precedence to Canada and Mexico because the US must have friendly neighbors on those long, undefended northern and southern borders. Next would come Japan, Australia, and Britain, the island nations off the coasts of the Eurasian heartland.

India might be added since that peninsula is almost an island surrounded by desert, mountains, jungle, and ocean. And Israel, with which America has emotional as well as strategic ties, would be an allied island in a hostile Arab Sea."