„Our traditional alliances and partnerships around the world are the stable platform on which we will confront these challenges,“ he said. „Yet it cannot be lost on us that we now face known and unknown security challenges in the context of a new fiscal reality.
This is no small task in today‘s world, a world which has become more competitive as state and non-state actors have taken advantage of information technologies to become more lethal and to decentralise, network, and syndicate against us. Stated another way, the number and kinds of threats we face have increased significantly.“