To complicate matters further, each threat will probably be somewhat
different. One terrorist group might like to fiddle with transportation
control systems; another might be dedicated to compromising
DOD databases. In the past, the United States has tailored its
forces and plans to deal with the single Soviet threat, and has assumed
that, if it could defeat the Soviet Union militarily, it could also
deal with what the Pentagon calls “lesser included threats.” In the IW
world, threats are likely to be as varied as tailored software, and U.S.
military forces will need to deal with each on its own terms.