National security

During the National Security exercise in class, my role in the exercise was to be in the position of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS). Acting as a military advisor to the president of the United States in the National Security Council, my role was to provide advice on the military aspect of the Courses of Actions (COAs) that the National Security Council would like to undertake. The military advice provided includes the readiness of the military for the COAs and the chances of…

definition of national security can be correlated with sustainability as principle that creates and maintains conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations. Sustainability is important to making sure that we have and will continue to have, the water, materials, and resources to protect human health and our environment. One major threat to the national security of South…

At the annual CPAC hosted by the American Conservative Union in National Harbor, MD, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton attacked Hillary Clinton, calling her “a threat to national security.” Bolton said, “Hillary Clinton is a threat to national security roughly equivalent to Barack Obama. And the greatest proof of that threat is her utter, total disdain for the protection of classified information entrusted to her as secretary of state. If she doesn’t have the wit to…

The National Security Agency (NSA) has collected and analyzed the contents of emails, text messages, and mobile and landline telephone calls from nine Americans for every one foreign person it has targeted. Their main mission is “preventing foreign adversaries from gaining access to sensitive or classified national security information.”(https://www.nsa.gov/about/mission/) To simplify, the initial mission was to keep America safe from the foreign. They’re responsible for the protection of U.S.…

realities to support national objectives. The National Security Actions and Executive Functions sides of the Pyramid most closely reflect existing modes of national security decision-making. By separating and regularizing the steps, we hope to inculcate a more systematic process that moves from identifying the problem, narrowing it and moving to response. Taken together, all of the sides and steps provide a conceptual system to think through and respond to national security problems,…

For the longest of time we have been under constant watch under the government. Ever since 9/11, The NSA, the National Security Agency, increased its domestic surveillance in the United States to protect from foreign invaders and inside threats. But let’s be honest, have any of us really benefited from this increase of our invasion of privacy? I mean for all we know the government is just being nosey and is trying to find someone to blame all their problems on. Why spend all this money on…

more inspiring. In addition, American citizens have influenced by their ideology some travel to Syria to fight and others carried local attacks. This situation has threat national security and worried US lawmakers. There are two challenging elements presented: the social establishment and the physical structure. Providing security usually comes with high price tags—the threat of civil liberty—in democratic society,…

Does national security override free speech? In the case of Snowden, Manning and Assange, they each leaked classified documents to the public under the name of free speech. Is this actually classified as free speech? According to J.S Mills, if it doesn’t cause physical harm to a populace, then it is classified as ‘free speech’ and so the leakage of government documents is allowed in accordance to Mills’ theory on free speech. Mills does not include psychological harm to anyone in his definition…

United State Code for theft of government property. The other two charges fall under the Espionage act section 793 (d) and section 798 (a)(3). These two sections respectively prohibit Unauthorized Communication of National Defense Information, namely “intentionally communicating national defense information to unauthorized persons if one has reason to believe the information could hurt the US or…

Energy security is a global issue. It can be defined as “The uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable price” (Chester, 2010). Energy security is not limited to the mere availability of the energy resources, it is rather linked with the national security of any country. If a country has energy resources to serve the need of its citizens, it means country has more sustained and long term energy security for the technological as well as economic development. Energy security…