A text of the Report-2009 has been put on the website of the director of US National Intelligence, signed by Dennis Blair, the head of the department, which contains recommendations to 16 US intelligence agencies. Recommendations are issued every four years.
Russia and China were among of only four countries that "have the ability to challenge US interests not only in traditional ways (as military force and espionage), but also in emerging ways (for example cyberthreats)".
Iran and North Korea remain main challenge to US interests in the world, the authors of the report state.
"Iran poses an array of challenges to US security objectives in the Middle East and beyond because of its nuclear and missile programmes, supports of terrorism, and provision of lethal aid to US adversaries", told in the document.
"North Korea continues to threaten peace and security in East Asia because of its sustained pursuit of nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities... its erratic behaviour", the report says.
"Russia is a US partner in important initiatives... but it may continue to seek avenues for reasserting power and influence in ways that complicate US interests", said in the report's chapter entitled "Strategic Environment".
China may pose a challenge to US interests because of its military modernization and diplomatic activization, said in the same chapter.
The global economic crisis ("it could weaken US security by fueling political turbulence"), climate change and a pandemic of new strains of flu (the outbreak of swine flu H1N1 in 2009 is given as an example in the report) are also poses threat to US interests.
In the last report, released in October 2005, the certain states - the opponents of US were not named. The strategic objectives back then were declared the fight against the so-called "terrorism" and spreading of weapons of mass destruction, support to democratic beginnings in other countries and support peaceful democratic states in general.
In that report were noted that the US is waging war with a certain "terror" and its task - to identify the so-called "terrorist organizations", to destroy them and to attack the command center of "terrorists" on American soil and abroad.
We would like to note that the US has long been an open enemy for Russia.
Department of Monitoring,
Kavkaz Center
