Field The New Global Threats

The CIA has returned to its original mission: It is the only agency that predicted that Vladimir Putin was going to invade Ukraine. So the new CIA report on the threats facing our world should be taken seriously. First and foremost: the conflict in Ukraine may spread to surrounding countries. In the pages of this book the reader will read the hearing of US intelligence officials before the House of Representatives on the subject of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but also the CIA's data on Eastern Europe and the Baltic States, this the powder keg we know so little about. In terms of the range of threats, we must not forget the rest of the world: China continues its mad arms race, North Korea has already launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, Iran wants to expand its nuclear program and its influence . Increasing cyber-attacks, the malicious use of new technologies, the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and global warming, migration flows, illegal and criminal trafficking and global terrorism will intensify. This prescient and useful report by US intelligence agencies warns starkly of the danger of an increasingly volatile and conflict-ridden future.