The United States' "war on terror" will continue for many years to come, President George W. Bush said Wednesday in a speech on his national security legacy.

Bush, who leaves office on January 20, compared the fight against terror to the Cold War of the post-World War II years.

"Like the struggle against Communism during the Cold War, the struggle against terror will be a generational conflict," Bush told military officers at the US Army War College.

That struggle is "one that will continue long beyond my presidency," Bush said.

Bush said his administration is leaving behind "the institutions and tools our country needs to prevail in the long struggle ahead.

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"We'll leave behind a vastly upgraded network of homeland defenses. Federal, state and local law enforcement officers are working together more closely than ever before. The number of Border Patrol agents has doubled since 2001," Bush said.

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