While no one can predict exactly how the future will unfold, current trends indicate a security environment with the following characteristics that are of particular interest to NORAD and USNORTHCOM: (1) Some states will continue to pose challenges with increasingly capable traditional capabilities including aircraft, kinetic weapons, ballistic and cruise missiles (2) Terrorism will remain a focus because it will continue to be unpredictable, yet credible, well organized, and well financed (3) Current asymmetric threats will be accomplished by new asymmetric threats such as information attacks or kinetic and non-kinetic attacks on space systems (4) Globalization will continue, creating opportunities for economic growth and providing an impetus for political freedoms, but also accelerating the spread of disease, weapons of mass destruction, extremist ideologies, and terrorism. (Keating, CDRNORADCDRUSNORTHCOM Strategic Guidance, November 1, 2006, p. 2)