Details are scarce, but in the future, you may need to play one franchise to unlock content in another.
Many have commented over the years that the difference between one Tom Clancy franchise and another have slowly been blurring away -- there really isn't that much, in gameplay terms, separating Ghost Recon from Rainbow Six. But according to comments made by Vinh-Dieu Lam, a programmer on the console RTS Tom Clancy's EndWar (pictured), the convergence between the franchises is only going to get more seamless, with what happens in one game perhaps affecting what happens in another.