Weak Countries Pose Threat, Pentagon Says

From The Hill:

Some of the most significant national security threats to the United States will likely come from weak and failed states, according to a high-ranking Pentagon official.

“State weakness and failure may be an increasing driver of conflict and situations that require a U.S. military response,” Michèle Flournoy, the undersecretary of Defense for policy, said on Wednesday at a briefing hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Flournoy stressed that in the past the threats came from powerful, aggressive states, but that will be changing in the coming years. Many of the security threats will arise out of states’ inability to meet the basic needs of their population and secure their own territory, Flournoy said.

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My Comment: The Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review, or QDR .... the Pentagon's way of outlining threats, trends, and the future for all who are interested in these things. With a new administration in power, the final report is going to be interesting.