Following the end of the Cold War, the threat of direct conventional military confrontation with other states has been replaced by <answer>terrorism</answer>. Sir Richard Dannatt predicted British forces to be involved in combating "predatory non-state actors" for the foreseeable future, in what he called an "era of persistent conflict". He told the Chatham House think tank that the fight against al-Qaeda and other militant Islamist groups was "probably the fight of our generation".
What was the new threat that arose after the end of the Cold War?
terrorism