Use credible resources, to include the National Defense Strategy Summary (2018), to conduct research on your selected topic. The product of your research will be a Near Peer Threat Background Paper that covers the following requirements: 

1. Summarize the current status of your selected topic. 

2. Explain your level of leadership (refer to Chapter 2 of the Enlisted Force Structure). 

3. Describe the impact, link, and/or association of your selected topic with your level of leadership. 

4. Describe the impact, link, and/or association of your selected topic with higher levels such as MAJCOMs and COCOMs. 

5. Explain why your selected topic is a threat to National Security.  

6. The paper is two to three pages in length.