Understanding the Challenge of the 21st Century Nontraditional Threat

Consider the challenge laid down by the 9/11 Commission in 2004: to be more imaginative than those who would do harm to the United States. The U.S. home-land security environment (and other areas of public safety) has labored to meet this challenge head-on with the understanding that the same capacity of human imagination is relentlessly excelling in innovative ways to strike violently and globally at opposing interests and allies.