Counter precision strike is designed to defeat or degrade U.S. precision intelligence and attack capabilities. Counter protection is designed to increase U.S. casualties and, in some cases, directly threaten the United States. Counter information is designed to prevent the United States from attaining information and decision superiority. The means to attack the United States asymmetrically are everyone s bad dream. It includes terrorism, cyberwarfare and information warfare, and attacks using weapons of mass destruction, and operations directed against U.S. space- based systems.
Terrorism remains the most likely attack at home and abroad.
This threat will grow as disgruntled groups and individuals focus on America as the source of their troubles, Wilson said. Most anti-U.S. terrorism will be regional and based on perceived racial, ethnic or religious grievances. He said terrorism would likely occur in urban centers, often capitals. U.S. service members will be obvious targets. Our overseas military presence and our military s status as a symbol of U.S. power, interests and influence can make it a target, he said.