Population size, structure, distribution, and composition affect security in numerous ways, including national power, civil conflict, and development. "The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security" offers a comprehensive overview of how demographic trends can function as components, indicators, and multipliers of a state's national security. Each chapter focuses on a particular demographic trend and describes its national security implications in three realms--military, regime, and structural.

Illustrating the mechanisms by which demography and security are connected, the...