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Pentagon to Emphasize Unconventional Threat
The U.S. Defense Department is preparing to place greater emphasis on unconventional threats such as bioterrorism in its four-year strategy review, a senior Pentagon official said yesterday (see GSN, Jan. 7). “We are recognizing that there are some things that in the past didn’t get as much attention relative to the more traditional kinds of military problems that need greater emphasis,” said Defense Undersecretary for Policy Douglas Feith, according to Agence France-Presse. (see related GSN story, today). Feith noted the potential for a bioterror attack and “possible disruptive capabilities — things that could be developed which would have a major disruptive effect on our military capabilities and society more generally” as areas that would become higher priorities. “We are using all kinds of technologies, even something as basic as electricity, in a way that there could be major disruptions if somebody were in a position to interfere with some of the technologies that we have become very dependent upon,” he said. “We need to put more emphasis on things that in the past were not high on the list, or not high enough on the list” (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, Jan. 26).
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