How Should The Country Protect Its National Security?

Bellavita Christopher is the Director of Programs for the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security. Also, from 1998 to 2002, he was the planning coordinator for the Utah Olympic Public Safety Command. The author focuses on the fact that homeland security faces a variety of threats. Many factors such as the economy, weapons of mass destruction and a lack of moral compass pose potential challenges to homeland security (Bellavita, 2009). The terrorist attacks such as the one in Mumbai, the economic meltdown, the disaster on the borders remain potential malefactors to the U. S. homeland. And to no surprise, the threats are gradually transforming into a more complex tactics. Bellavita takes aim towards a realistic assessment

To keep our great nation safe requires the combined effort of a multitude of agencies and groups nationwide. The US homeland is the physical region that includes the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, US territories, and surrounding 500 nautical miles of territorial waters and airspace (Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2013). The keep the countries boarders secure and over 324 million Americans safe is a massive task and this broad stroke program involves federal government including the military, federal, state, local, tribal areas and the private sector along with other governments with shared interests. According to The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) there are three key concepts that are the foundation of America’s homeland security strategy.

Every able-bodied male should serve at least four years in the United States Armed Forces

Over the course of American history the United States military has been in need of more able bodied men to fight for the security of the nation than it has had. George Washington needed men during the Revolutionary era, George W. Bush needed men after the events on 9-11, and the next president will need men to continue the fight on terrorism. America has been reactive in their efforts to maintain a well-regulated military by only calling upon healthy abled bodied men during time of war. When in fact, America, should have been proactive by keeping a well-trained and well-staffed military on hand at all times. Every able bodied male should serve at least four years in the United States Armed Forces because the United States need protection at any given moment. The security of the United States is more important than ones right to choose to be in the Armed Forces. The rights of the people of the United States will not exist if there is not enough able bodied males to protect those rights. Of course non able bodied males should be excluded from this. A law to force every male to join the Armed Forces would go too far.

After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, people in the United States knew that absolutely anything could happen without even thinking about it. This event made the government realize that the United States security was not the best it could be. There always has been security everywhere, but today everything is taken to another level and is being controlled with a great amount of precautions. Now there is a lot more airport security, which will help prevent any more hijacking of planes or bombings. There has also been a lot more security in New York City because of the terrorist attack. There are also new technologies and programs that help with the security of this country.

a. Chapter 1, “Our Service,” establishes the need and purpose for armies in history as well as present day conflicts through four subsections: the land domain, land operations, landpower for the nation, and the Army’s three strategic roles. The roles are: preventing conflict, shaping strategic environment, and winning decisively in combat. This chapter identifies the land domain as the stage on which most significant conflict is waged. Militaries shape conflicts by how effective or ineffective they can exert influence on land-based populations. Land operations consist of confronting adversaries in complex environments through use of lethal and nonlethal force. The Army is required to conduct offensive, defensive, and stability operations. Landpower for the nation communicates the need for a land-based force to influence foreign population and protect American interests. The last section defines the mission and pinpoints the importance of sustaining a standing and trained Army.

As an American girl, sometimes I think it’s dangerous to walk or drive by myself at night. However, after my first meeting with Johanna (who is my service-learning partner), I’ve learned living in America is a blessing and is safer than most countries. Although we should always be aware of our surroundings, we are not continually concerned about being robbed or killed. Johanna and I discussed Ecuador’s safety and security issues in comparison to the United States. From our discussion and through media, my first opinion on Ecuador’s is the economy is unstable, drug use is high and crime is rampant. I find it disturbing the media does not report on the safety and security issues in Ecuador as well as other countries. I explored the major contributions behind the crime and residential security in Ecuador; and began to wonder; are the policies of the government beneficial for the development of creating a secure environment for the citizens of Ecuador?

Balancing the need of national security and respecting civil liberties is a difficult endeavor. The United States Constitution and Bill of Rights guarantees our freedom from unwarranted government intrusion. However, we also have the need to feel secure in our society from threats of criminal acts. We then expect the government to provide both and they should.

The key policing organization in the P.R.C. is the People's Armed Police (PAP), which comprises about 800,000 trained officers. This agency was instituted in the start of 1983 and was formed by incorporating the disbanded units of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) on domestic defense duty and armed frontier defense as well as the task of fire-fighting. The unprecedented rise of the PAP shows how Chinese governance is more concerned with domestic security than it is with the possibility of foreign threats” Mühlhahn, K., & Klaus, M. (2009). The PAP's foremost task is to deal with domestic disturbances, by acting as the unyielding riot police, defending government complexes and also foreign embassies. It is usually given the task to handle border defense but in some cases it is requested to only back up local police. Recently it has been extensively employed to suppress anti-government

There are a lot of things that come into account when we talk about border security, but why is border security important? Our borders help keep the drugs, undocumented aliens, terrorists, and contraband that is coming into our country. If we can keep our borders secure then a lot of these things will not make it into our country. Another thing that would change is the crime that’s associated with these things. If we can stop the drugs that are coming into the country it would help reduce the criminal activities that are associated with it and ultimately help reduce crime rates throughout the country.

As of today, China has expanded and built over seven artificial islands in the South China Sea since 2014. The South China Sea has recently come to be a major problem in Asia as issues have risen over who has rights of passage and claims in this area. The Chinese of recent have been making territorial claims in the South China Sea that are in areas of free passage for many other Asian countries and the United States. In October 2015, a U.S. guided missile destroyer encountered one of the artificial islands and China’s response was that it would “take any measure” to maintain its security in “their territory”. The Chinese have been questioned in the Permanent Court of Arbitration by the Philippines after claiming rights to historical locations in the South China Sea, which violates sovereign rights of the Philippines, yet China responded to this outcome with refusal and has continued to advance itself in the territory causing huge disputes with its neighboring countries as freedom of navigation has been compromised through China’s actions.. In order to guarantee resolution and maintain the freedom of navigation aspect of international law there needs to be a foreign policy put in place that puts more United States military in the South China Sea with support from disputing countries like Japan and the Philippines as a way to make the issue multilateral and law abiding.

In July 2013, Wenweipo - the pro-PRC Chinese-language newspaper published an article titled “Six Wars China is sure to fight in the next 50 years”. According to this article, after unification of Taiwan (year 2020 to 2025), China will take the second war: Reconquest of Spratly Islands (year 2025 to 2030) and “China will send the ultimatum to countries surrounding the Islands with the deadline of 2028. The countries having disputes on the sovereignty of Islands can negotiate with China on preserving their shares of investments in these Islands by giving up”. In 1999, two Chinese military colonels – authors of the book namely “Unlimited War” suggested using an “unlimited war” to solve the disputing in the South China Sea. These authors said that, to avoid a war does not mean that not using military force and a conflict is indispensable. However, there is one more important thing that to control the intensities of conflict that. It is necessary to conduct some special activities to prove the sovereignty of China in the disputing Spratly Islands but do not let this activities increase to the total war. These things prove that the potential war between Vietnam and China in the future could be come true.

This essay will discuss some threats transnational organised crime have to Southeast Asian states. By comparing to traditional security paradigm threats, this essay will argue that in order for states to combat transnational organised crime, they must consider and use traditional and non-traditional means. First, this essay will present the security paradigm of traditional security. In this section, this essay will discuss the points of, the focus traditional security has on the protection of the state and traditional security threats such as external military forces. Secondly, this essay will present the non-traditional security paradigm; discussing the people-centred approach of non-traditional security, and non-traditional security threats. Thirdly, this essay will focus on security challenges of transnational organised crime on Southeast Asian states, discussing the challenges human trafficking, drug trafficking, corruption and bribes, and illegal logging. At the end of each of the organised crime security challenges, this essay will discuss how these challenges differ from traditional security threats.

The dispute over the South China Sea denotes the process of power rebalancing while China rising as a hegemony in East Asia. China craves for more resources and power and decides to effectuate that by controlling more maritime territory. This act impelled the United State to align with the Philippines to balance with China. In a realism world, U.S. has adequate reason to intervene for fear for China becoming too strong a power.

In modern times, the Philippines has been a central ally in the United States’ Asian and Pacific policies. The government structure is similar to that of the United States, including a legislative, judicial, executive branch that independent in their roles. Since becoming a nation independent from the United States, the Philippines has seen its share of success and failure. In the past three years the government has dealt with natural disasters, terrorism, and Chinese aggression. While the Philippine and United States governments have generally been cordial and cooperative, the Philippine president is currently weighing the decision to cut ties with the United States and align his country with China.