Top 8 threats to National Security in 2024
By
Tessa Robinson
Feb 29, 2024 11:26 AM PST
SUMMARY
Every year, the Council on Foreign Relations publishes the greatest threats to the American experiment. For the first time, the biggest one is already on U.S. soil.
Every year, the Council on Foreign Relations pulls together a comprehensive report surrounding the biggest threats to our American experiment called the "Preventative Priorities Survey." I like to call it "Top 8 reasons to have anxiety." According to the PPS, the survey evaluates "ongoing and potential conflicts based on their likelihood of occurring in the coming year and their impact on U.S. interests."
The PPS aims to "help the U.S. policymaking community prioritize competing conflict prevention and mitigation demands." While the survey acknowledges there are countless threats to the nation, they're really focused on the top 30, which they place in three categories - Tiers I, II, and III. Eight threats made it into Tier I for 2024, and this year, for the first time in the report's 16-year history, the report doesn't list a foreign entity as the biggest threat, rather, we, as Americans, are the biggest danger to ourselves.
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A few notes from the PPS before we discuss this no good, terrible, awful, terrifying news: "The survey did not ask experts to assess broad trends like global warming, demographic change, or technological developments because it is inherently difficult to gauge how such trends could trigger conflict in a specific area over the next twelve months. Nor does the PPS attempt to evaluate the risk associated with more discrete events such as earthquakes, severe weather events, public health crises, or the death of a specific leader, all of which can undermine political stability. Such random events are inherently unpredictable within a short time frame. The results reflect expert opinion at the time the survey was conducted in November 2023. The world is a dynamic place and geopolitical risk assessments need to be regularly updated to refect changing circumstances. For this reason, CPA monitors ongoing and emerging conflicts with its award-winning “Global Conflict Tracker” interactive, accessible at cfr.org/globalconficttracker."
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