Emerging Non-Traditional Security Issues for the New Millenium
Abstract
The United States enters the new millenium faced with a host of ongoing and potential security challenges. The rapid pace of "globalization", coupled with the increasing interdependence among nations, will cause the relative decline of America's unprecedented power over time. On the periphery of the more visible threats to national security are a series of international conventions, protocols, treaties, and agreements that will directly or indirectly affect military activities. Collectively, the U.S. Army is referring to these phenomena as Emerging Non-Traditional Security Issues (ENSI). Selected ENSI will be discussed to determine their potential affect on military activities, they include the following: the Convention on the Rights of a Child which could regulate the minimum recruitment age, the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change which could regulate military fuel consumption, and the Basel Convention on the Transboundary Movement and Disposal of Hazardous Waste which could affect the sustainment of forward deployed forces.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 12, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA368247
Entities
People
- Addison D. Davis Iv
Organizations
- United States Army War College