On a day to day basis, over the majority of the populous of the United States conduct their daily routines without a thought that their rights to freedom of religion, choice, speech or individuality could be taken away. Most have no clue of how the country is being protected or who is assisting in those efforts in trying to keep it protected. If I had to make an assessment, that assessment would be that the culture of Americans is complacent when it comes to their freedoms and liberties. When the people of the U.S. thinks of national protection, most think of the military fighting bad guys in or from foreign countries. The U. S. as a whole does not consider the planning, preparation and execution that is applied into placing measures for
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The only difference between everyday people and national decision makers, is that the decision makers consciously and meticulously form strategic plans on a much grander and political scale. That scale being National Security. Historically, Counterintelligence (CI) responsibilities and authorities in the United States have been divided among the several operational CI entities—the FBI, CIA, and the three military services—with no central leadership or structure to unite them. U.S. government had no central leadership and no structure or institutionalized processes to accomplish a central national …show more content…
Intelligence is one of those disciplines with Counterintelligence (CI) being a subordinate of this discipline. Counterintelligence is a part of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) which provides effective leadership and support to the counterintelligence and security activities of the US IC, the US Government, and US private sector entities who are at risk of intelligence collection or attack by foreign adversaries. Responsibilities of the NCSC is to develop, coordinate and produce the National Counterintelligence Strategy of the United States of America and to budget CI programs and evaluations that reflect strategic priorities. National Security combined with the responsibilities of the NCSC equals Strategic Counterintelligence. I will discuss the concept of strategic counterintelligence by defining each word separately and then collectively as it will be represented throughout this response to Mid-Term question number 2. I will further discuss challenges and key benefits of this
The only difference between everyday people and national decision makers, is that the decision makers consciously and meticulously form strategic plans on a much grander and political scale. That scale being National Security. Historically, Counterintelligence (CI) responsibilities and authorities in the United States have been divided among the several operational CI entities—the FBI, CIA, and the three military services—with no central leadership or structure to unite them. U.S. government had no central leadership and no structure or institutionalized processes to accomplish a central national …show more content…
Intelligence is one of those disciplines with Counterintelligence (CI) being a subordinate of this discipline. Counterintelligence is a part of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) which provides effective leadership and support to the counterintelligence and security activities of the US IC, the US Government, and US private sector entities who are at risk of intelligence collection or attack by foreign adversaries. Responsibilities of the NCSC is to develop, coordinate and produce the National Counterintelligence Strategy of the United States of America and to budget CI programs and evaluations that reflect strategic priorities. National Security combined with the responsibilities of the NCSC equals Strategic Counterintelligence. I will discuss the concept of strategic counterintelligence by defining each word separately and then collectively as it will be represented throughout this response to Mid-Term question number 2. I will further discuss challenges and key benefits of this