A Decade after the 9/11 Attacks, Americans Live in an Era of Endless War by Greg Jaffe, Washington Post. (US Joint Forces Command's Joint Operating Environment 2010 cited) BLUF:
Today, radical religious ideologies, new technologies and cheap, powerful weapons have catapulted the world into “a period of persistent conflict,” according to the Pentagon’s last major assessment of global security. “No one should harbor the illusion that the developed world can win this conflict in the near future,” the document concludes.