Wars Of The Future

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell (R) speaks alongside Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Robert Mueller (L) during a Hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC in February 2008. The world faces a growing risk of conflict over the next 20 to 30 years amid an unprecedented transfer of wealth and power from West to East, according to McConnell.

World Faces Growing Risk Of War:
US Intelligence Chief -- Breitbart/AFP

The world faces a growing risk of conflict over the next 20 to 30 years amid an unprecedented transfer of wealth and power from West to East, according to the US intelligence chief.

Michael McConnell, the director of national intelligence, predicted rising demand for scarce supplies of food and fuel, strategic competition over new technologies, and the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

"What I'm suggesting -- there's an increased potential for conflict," McConnell said in a speech Thursday to intelligence professionals in Nashville, Tennessee.

"During the period of this assessment, out to 2025, the probability for conflict between nations and within nation-state entities will be greater," he said.

Conditions for "large casualty terrorist attacks using chemical, biological, or less likely, nuclear materials" also will increase during that period, he said.

McConnell described a multi-polar world in 2025 shaped by the rise of China, India and Brazil, whose economies will by then match those of the western industrial states.

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My Comment: This does not paint a rosy picture of the future .... with much of the world's future conflict originating due to lack of food, energy and natural resources.