Change Out at Defense

The in-coming administration inherits some of the toughest national security challenges ever. Old demons persist, but new threats have appeared that ignore the traditional dividing lines of foreign versus domestic; military versus civilian; and us versus them. Energy security, decentralized terrorism, pandemic diseases, and the disruption of cyber networks bringing down the financial system or the electric power grid or the government's communication networks are key threats that look radically different than do hostile nation states.

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