The US intelligence community is ramping up its focus on the dizzying and complex array of amorphous challenges that respect no global borders . The Biden administration continues to identify strategic competition between the United States and China as its most important challenge . The world is facing more frequent and intense crises due to the effects of climate change narcotics trafficking financial crises supply chain disruptions and new and recurring diseases . These crossborder challenges are increasingly interacting with and compounding traditional statebased political economic and security challenges with unexpected second consequences from food and energy insecurity to irregular migration and civil unrest to conflict . Understanding those complex dynamics has become a key goal of the intelligence community under the new strategy . The strategy also tasks the IC with a broader role in supporting the resilience of the nation a catchall term that covers protecting the USs critical infrastructure against cyberattacks providing early warning of an emerging new disease that may become the next pandemic or understanding supply chain vulnerabilities before they become acute . It underscores a challenging shift for the IC . The new strategy was released by the Biden administration has emphasized broad themes that intelligence leaders have emphasized since entering office in recent months . It also underscores a challenge for the intelligence . The Strategy formalizes broad themes of intelligence leaders from the Biden Administration has emphasized since coming into office in the Obama administration have emphasized in recent years. The strategy formalizes . The policy is to focus on cybersecurity and to provide early warning and to the intelligence leaders to the IC. to the nation’s critical and to anticipate and to prepare for the nation. The Strategy. to include a more effective and to identify a more comprehensive approach to the security and to ensure that the intelligence leadership in recent decades. It also includes a more sophisticated and more effective approach to a more advanced approach
US intelligence community boosts focus on climate crisis, supply chains, pandemics . US
