Why should we imagine that near-peer states such as China haven't taken notice?

Units must face a near-peer opposing force, while taking on an insurgent force.

Trained college interns and certified teachers supervise the near-peer relationship for a five-week program.

The hypothetical conflict was set in the year 2017 and involved fighting a space battle with a "near-peer competitor" country named Red that resembled China.

Its model uses recent college graduates as near-peer mentors for students lacking the social resources to successfully enroll in and graduate from college.

She has also looked at how men and women can negotiate, especially prior to having children, from traditional marriage or from "transitional", "near-peer" marriage to egalitarian, peer marriage.

Practice Makes Perfect (PMP) is a nonprofit organization that partners with communities to create summer enrichment programs for inner-city youth from elementary school to college matriculation using a near-peer model.

"I basically said I'm the last person to dismiss the possibility of a near-peer conflict at some future date, but I thought that date was well into the future if it ever came.

The strike mission is characterized by discrete phases, so less abrupt changes in throttle, angle of attack and altitude are required than in air-to-air combat against a peer or near-peer adversary aircraft.

The Air-Sea Battle paradigm is similarly premised on the assumption that technology marches forward: U.S. air and naval dominance incentivizes near-peer competitors -- a.k.a. frenemies, a.k.a.

City Year corps members serve as near-peer tutors, mentors and role models in high-need schools, identifying students with a high likelihood of dropping out based on those ABCs – the early warning indicators.

The Mind Trekkers team members act as role models and near-peer mentors as they help students define their interests and aptitudes in these high-energy events full of activities lasting between 30 seconds to 3 minutes.

But it's that amazing near-peer connection of young people with young people ... helping them through a process you just went through yourself, and taking the mystery and anxiety out of it, that I think is really important.

Since 2012, one of the most popular sections of UCLU Medical Society has been UCLU Med Soc Education, which provides peer-to-peer and near-peer teaching events, run by medical students for other medical students.

However, Barnett argues that the problems being experienced by the US in Iraq are symptomatic of the military the US bought over the last decade preparing for war against a near-peer competitor when, in fact, the danger was disconnectivity in the Gap.