September 6,
2001
Captain Sam J. Tangredi,
Senior Military Fellow, Institute for National
Strategic Studies, National Defense University
Captain Sam
J. Tangredi from the National Defense
University offered a comprehensive briefing on
Globalization and the Future Security Environment. He
projected twelve key strategic decisions for the time
period 2001-2025. He spoke at great length concerning
the most significant threats to U.S. interests, what
kind of wars the U.S. military should be prepared to
deter and, if necessary, to fight and win over the
next 10-20 years. He underlined that there will not be
an ideological competitor to democracy of the scale of
Cold War communism. And there will be no conventional
military-peer competitor capable of long term power
projection beyond its immediate region. However, China
could emerge as a great power competitor at a later
time. Captain Tangredi was of the opinion that if
there should be a technological surprise, it will
likely be developed by the United States. He warned
that the U.S. homeland will become increasingly
vulnerable to chemical and biological weapons.
Meanwhile, information warfare will become
increasingly important, and, in this respect, the U.S.
has the leading edge.
