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July 30, 2020
“The scale and complexity of the national security challenges facing the United States are unprecedented—and getting worse. The first step to success is a clear understanding of the complexity and nature of the challenges facing America today.”
By John Rood with contributions from Greg Treverton[1]
“There are many major national security challenges occurring simultaneously that in earlier periods individually would have dominated the focus of the government’s senior decision-makers. Dealing with multiple major challenges and crises at the same time is today’s reality. The stakes are higher too as we emerge from three decades of the post-Cold War period when the United States did not face a major threat to its security or to the values and individual freedoms cherished by Americans…”
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[1] John Rood served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from January 2018–February 2020. Greg Treverton served as Chairman of the National Intelligence Council from 2014–2017. Both are SMA Executive Advisors.
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Edited by Dick Eassom, CF APMP Fellow
Published on July 30, 2020, by SMA, Inc.