Dealing with today's asymmetric threat to U.S. and global security

Gathering the best minds in national security from government, industry and academia, the symposium provided a forum for dialogue on how to plan for a new, integrated strategy to defeat terrorism. Following the end of World War II, and through the Cold War and its aftermath, the U.S. government was able to maintain a consistent series of national security strategies to counter the relatively uniform threats of the era. With the September 11 attacks, however, a new, lethal and asymmetrical threat entered the world stage. Today, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, the Internet and cellular technology have all magnified this capability dramatically, calling for a new, unified and integrated national strategy to counter asymmetric threats.