ISR Support to Force Protection

摘要

The United States' commitment to democratic principles, individual freedom, and support for human rights is essential to our leading role in the world community, but increases our vulnerability to asymmetric, unconventional, or indirect actions. Our involvement in world affairs and the secular nature of our government are perceived as threatening to some ideologies, cultures, and religions. Our relative wealth generates resentment in populations and regions that lack the resources to meet the basic needs of their people. The result―against a background of ethnic friction, civil war, and large refugee populations―is often an environment hostile to the United States.