“…Without a global nuclear standoff to dominate the world stage, national security requirements shifted fairly uniformly, and almost simultaneously, on both sides of the former Iron Curtain. They shifted away from monitoring the strategic and tactical capabilities of multinational blocs to smaller‐scale but often more pervasive and pernicious threats such as terrorism, transnational serious crime (particularly narcotics and its side effect, money laundering), the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and advanced conventional weapons, and a renewed concern about economic security and, therefore, economic and industrial espionage (Adams, 1994; Boren, 1992; May, 1992; Smith, 1996; Urban, 1996). These new requirements share the common characteristics of being based around small groups that are difficult to identify and monitor, and a blurring of the lines between domestic and foreign threats.…”