United States: Transnational Crime Is A Top Security Threat

18:05, November 8, 2012

Transnational crime will be one of the five most significant threats to American and global security over the next decade, according to Obama administration intelligence forecasts and the U.S. military.  It joins a chilling list which also includes biological weapons, nuclear weapons, cyber warfare and climate change.

Two primary issues concern American military personnel in the arena of transnational crime, as reported by National Defense magazine.

The first is the limited capacity of military forces to combat criminal groups. It's difficult for the U.S. to take their eyes off state level actors to fight "non-state, non-standard" actors, National Defensereports.  Read more... (456 words)

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