Security Challenges for the Next Administration

“Our next president will inherit a world that in my judgment has a multitude of national security challenges that collectively are greater than any other president has inherited in some decades.” A stark assessment from Michael Vickers, former Green Beret, CIA paramilitary operations officer and Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, as he spoke at The Cipher Brief’s monthly Georgetown Salon Series event in Washington D.C.

He went on to map out the most pressing security challenges facing the next administration, describing the current climate as a “dawn of a new national security era” that’s been “a long time in the making.”

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