National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Deputy Director Justin Poole calls the current world situation "a sort of reawakening of times of old." NGA
Tim Johnson, Stars and Stripes/McClatchy Washington Bureau: US spies see new threats from global rivals, say it could be Cold War 2.0
WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — As the intelligence community shifts its primary focus from counterterrorism to threats from Russia and China, some leaders voice a sense of deja vu and even eagerness at the challenge.
“It has been a sort of reawakening of times of old, I will say,” said Deputy Director Justin Poole of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, one of the 17 agencies and offices that make up the U.S. intelligence community. “It’s a little more cold warrior-y.”
President Donald Trump singled out China last week for what he said was an intent to interfere in upcoming midterm elections. In separate speeches, the national intelligence director and the CIA director also emphasized the shift in strategy toward China and Russia, both of which seek to rival the U.S. on the global stage.
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WNU Editor: I do not see a new Cold War developing between the West and Russia .... at least not to the levels that existed between the Soviet Union and the West decades ago. But China is a different story, primarily because the Chinese are prepared to use their military to directly confront the U.S. military that can easily precipitate into a dangerous confrontation. Case in point .... Chinese Warship Purposely Came Within Yards From Ramming A U.S. Destroyer In The South China Sea (Update).
