Main point: The essays being summarized sought to “ponder the equally important ‘unknown unknowns’ and, insofar as this is possible, to characterize potential U.S. national security weaknesses and the threats most likely to blindside the U.S. and its allies…to make them ‘known unknowns,’ as it were.”
More about it:
- “…we may become so caught up in preparing for peer conflict that we miss opportunities and risks on what seems the strategic periphery, areas that may hold high leverage for impacting global security and stability.”
- “…there are limitations to how completely the U.S. can and should pivot to the Indo-Pacific.”
- “…the U.S. must move quickly to secure a way forward in this region [the Arctic] or risk becoming irrelevant.”
- It’s also important to understand “cognitive geography, exploring the social media and information landscape being created by Vladimir Putin while we watch, suggesting that even those efforts to shape perception we might be tempted to label as absurd are dangerous and warrant comprehensive response.”
- “…while the U.S. often takes for granted the security of its own hemisphere, that security is a dangerous assumption, and the U.S. must pay close attention to Russian and Chinese inroads in the region.”
Why it matters: Our enemies never take time off.