DSB Directive Key Points

1

• Global commons, e.g.
• Climate change
• Ocean collapse

International Security Threats in the 21st
Century A Framework Colin H. Kahl University of
Minnesota

• Disruptive threats, e.g.
• ASATs
• Cyber-attacks
• Oil as weapon
• Debt financing as weapon

2

• Global commons, e.g.
• Climate change
• Ocean collapse

Return of multipolarity

• Global commons, e.g.
• Climate change
• Ocean collapse

Return of multipolarity
AQ/salafist jihadism as movement

• Pandemics, e.g.
• HIV/AIDS
• Avian flu

Energy shortages

• Irregular challenges, e.g.
• Failed states
• Transnational insurgency
• AQ as organization/ network

• Disruptive threats, e.g.
• ASATs
• Cyber-attacks
• Oil as weapon
• Debt financing as weapon

• Disruptive threats, e.g.
• ASATs
• Cyber-attacks
• Oil weapon
• Debt financing weapon

• Rise of conventional competitors, e.g.
• China
• India
• Russia

• Catastrophic, e.g.
• Nuclear proliferation
• BW proliferation

• Catastrophic, e.g.
• Nuclear proliferation
• BW proliferation