By Ryan Averbeck and Gregory A. Gaddy

Global economic competition, to a large extent, has replaced the Cold War political and military competition. As a result, countries now pursue national economic interests through a myriad of activities, including espionage. Their goal is to maintain and sustain a competitive advantage in the global market place as quickly and affordably as possible, preferably at YOUR expense. This has placed U.S. businesses in an even greater position of risk as countries and companies increase the targeting of innovative U.S. based research, technologies, and products. (Editor's note: See Nation States' Espionage and Counterespionage, by CIA veteran Christopher Burgess.

The targeting and theft of U.S. innovation, be it in the form of intellectual property, trade secrets, research, prototypes, etc., has significant dire effects on our nation.

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