A large counterfeiting organization with manufacturing capabilities and connections to transnational crime groups poses a threat to distribute counterfeit products on a commercial scale throughout the world.
The new aspect today, and in the coming decades, is the role played by technologies in enhancing military capabilities and multiplying the transnational impact of the tactics used [26].
A 2007 assessment of illicit activity and smuggling networks by the journal International Security concluded that "North Korea possesses sophisticated smuggling capabilities developed from years of transnational criminal activity, driven by economic necessity and justified with ideological veneer".
The simulation focused on pandemic capabilities with the greatest relevance to transnational cooperation: surveillance and information sharing, disease prevention and control, and communication.
In the wake of 9/11, even before AFRICOM was created, the U.S. began ramping up operations across the continent in an effort to bolster the counterterror capabilities of allies and insulate Africa from transnational terror groups, namely globe-trotting Islamic extremists.
This chapter addresses the dynamics of the changing security landscape, driven by the rising business risk exposure of transnational organized crime, cyber crimes, piracy, and the emerging terrorist capabilities, resulting in adversaries changing tactics and target selection.
Showing off its handiwork daily via Twitter and YouTube, Isis has repeatedly demonstrated that it is much more than a transnational terrorist organisation – rather, it is an entity with sophisticated command, control, propaganda and logistical capabilities, and one that has proven its ability to take and hold strategically critical territory at the heart of the Middle East.
Today's world, at least in that band of instability that runs from north Africa and through the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and central Asia, is characterised by numerous weak and sometimes failed states, and by transnational actors who are able to move fluidly across international borders, abetted by the same technological capabilities that produced globalisation.
Healtheon acquired a crucial piece of this capability with a deal in January to buy the electronic billing company Envoy from the Quintiles Transnational Corporation for $2.5 billion in Healtheon stock.
"Were we to leave prematurely, without degrading the insurgency and increasing the capability of the Afghan national security forces, we could see the return of the destructive forces of transnational terror," he said.
