The onrushing tide of German unification and the collapse of Soviet power in East-Central Europe highlight the increasing irrelevance of both the Atlantic Alliance and the Warsaw Pact to the evolving European security environment.
"While we are still in the process of an ongoing investigation, we recognize that the information security environment is evolving rapidly," he said.
Schear noted that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates recently described as "patchwork" the "specialized [U.S. congressional] legislative authorities and funding sources that evolved in a very different security environment" than today.
Over time, the security environment has evolved from isolated problem areas to sweeping threat matrices — a single attack from sophisticated cyber criminals can encompass multiple attack modes, multiple technologies and stealthy tactics.
"We have to evolve our forces to compensate for the changing security environment and emerging threats," he said.
"The security environment is always evolving," she said.
"The assets most valued by the spectrum of potential adversaries in the new security environment may be diverse and, in some cases, U.S. understanding of what an adversary values may evolve," the Pentagon report explains.
The Taiwan Democracy and Security Project, part of APARC's U.S.-Asia Security Initiative, convened a workshop that examined Taiwan's place in the evolving security environment of East Asia.
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"The national security environment has changed as the sophistication and resulting damage of the Chinese government's involvement in computer intrusions and attacks against the United States has evolved over time," the report said.
"That means confronting corruption and the weak security environment".
