Top Six Strategic Threats to Worry About in Today’s Global Headlines -- Elaine M. Grossman, Real Clear Defense
OMAHA, Neb.— What do hundreds of nuclear-weapons wonks discuss when cloistered for two hot August days in a windowless Midwest conference center? Turns out, it’s not just nuclear weapons. It’s about their deepest and well informed fears of how conflicts dominating today’s global headlines could translate into real life-altering events for Americans.
No one is ruling out the risk — even if remote — that a newly aggressive Russia or China might someday put a mushroom cloud over New York City. But the more urgent worries today are radical extremists who will stop at nothing, new nuclear powers stumbling into cataclysmic mistakes, and attacks in the cybersphere or space that might paralyze a nation.
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My Comment: A rather good summary on what are the six top strategic threats in the world today.
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I'll add a seventh, the influence on US strategic policy of almost everyone quoted in this article.
Example:
"Yet an even bigger issue, according to some thinkers, is whether the United States should be tallying such lists of geopolitical and military worries to deter at all.
"America’s national-security elites act on the assumption that every nook and cranny of the globe is of great strategic significance and that there are threats to U.S. interests everywhere,” John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago wrote in The National Interest earlier this year. “Not surprisingly, they live in a constant state of fear.”
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