Concern over adversary interventions should be tempered — for now .Overall, adversary military interventions, in number and in scale, remain far below the levels that the United States had to contend with during the Cold War. . Several factors could contribute to a shift toward substantially more-aggressive and larger-scale interventions, including intensification of U.S. rivalries with key adversaries (e.g., Russia or China), adversary perceptions of the threats posed by U.S. actions, or ...