Big Three: Our Greatest Security Risks and How to Address Them

摘要

The American national security establishment confronts many immediate problems: 'Rogue states' attempt to bully their neighbors and attack U.S. interests; a war with Iraq has been followed by years of confrontation over sanctions and inspection; and a half-century after a major war in Korea, America still faces a constant and unpredictable threat on that peninsula. In addition, state-sponsored and independent terrorist groups explode bombs at American embassies, on U.S. bases, and in American airplanes. Nuclear, chemical and biological weapons are proliferating. Ethnic and national groups lock in conflict so extensive and bitter that even when U.S. interests are not directly at stake, as in Bosnia or Rwanda, there are imperatives for intervention. The challenges at the end of the 20th century are immensely demanding. But beyond the present lie other, probably even more.