Last week Fox News interviewed CIA Director Michael Hayden on which countries the next US administration should focus their attention on. In summary:
North Korea: ‘Aid weakness and poverty have made North Korea more aggressive as it threatens to restart work on its nuclear weapons program.’
“Axis of Oil”: ‘$100 per barrel have emboldened Iran, Venezuela* and Russia. Russia’s invasion of Georgian territory in August and Iran’s continued work on acquiring nuclear weapons only compound the threat’.
For background read this.
* Is Venezuela the new Cuba, Iran the new Russia?
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Charlie Edwards is Director of National Security and Resilience Studies at the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to RUSI he was a Research Leader at the RAND Corporation focusing on Defence and Security where he conducted research and analysis on a broad range of subject areas including: the evaluation and implementation of counter-violent extremism programmes in Europe and Africa, UK cyber strategy, European emergency management, and the role of the internet in the process of radicalisation. He has undertaken fieldwork in Iraq, Somalia, and the wider Horn of Africa region.
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