The United States National Security Strategies

For the last twenty eight years, China has been quickly growing into one of the largest economies in the world. China has accomplished this feat, in part, by radically changing their policies on trade and free market interactions with other countries. During this process, China has bought approximately one hundred trillion dollars of United States debt in the form of Treasury bills, notes, bonds, and Inflation Protected Securities (Amadeo). This debt has given China leverage against the United States which has enabled China to keep the value of the United States dollar high, while keeping the value of the Chinese yuan low. As the inflation of the dollar continues to negatively affect the

In this day and age, hacking proves one of the most immediate and legitimate threats to our national security. Reports depict Chinese cyber-attacks towards acquiring American technology/intel and even possible interference in our polls by the Russians. With how reliant our society and therefore our military is on computers and technology, a full scale cyber-attack from even a smaller adversary such as North Korea could possibly cripple our whole nation. America is currently the world's strongest military not due to manpower, but due to the technological advantage our military has over others, making America even more vulnerable to being crippled by a cyber attack compared to rival world powers. Should a fragment of Trump’s $54 Billion increase in our defense budget be used to ensure America has the most electronically secure and technologically advanced cyber-warfare capabilities, Trump’s goal of securing America as the world's strongest, most robust military would be underway. With an upgrade in cyber-warfare capabilities, an upgrade in weapons research and development must be made as well in order to ensure a more robust

The national security of the United States takes on many ideas. It is not only protecting out boarders, but also deterring and defeating an enemy before they come to the United States. Today the U.S. biggest threat is defending terrorism; either by a foreign group or from within our boarders.

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.

How did 9/11 lead to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the breaching of civil rights?

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

Since 9/11 attacks, the counter terrorism and preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction has become the top national security priorities. The Obama administration has exercised prodigious efforts to fight with terrorism, stooping Iran Nuclear programme and drawing red-line for Syrian use of chemical weapons. To safeguard the security of US citizens, it is most important

The National Strategy for Homeland Security is tasked with guiding, unifying, and organizing America’s homeland security efforts. The National Strategy seeks to protect the Americans, the country’s infrastructure and major resources as well as prevent and thwart any terrorist attacks. It also responds to and ensures recovery from incidents and strengthens the foundation for long-term success. Such involves developing a preparedness culture among various partners across the country to make use of well-planned response, defensive approaches, and recovery measures.

From the fledgling beginnings in the history of the United States, the populace of the newly formed republic were concerned with protecting into perpetuity their hard-won independence. To ensure that democracy would rein unchallenged, a formalized guarantee, the Constitution, spelled out whom would comprise the actors and what processes were to be made available for governance. Distinct roles were drafted for both the president and Congress for the purposes of evenly distributing power and preventing any single entity from wielding their power arbitrarily (Jordan et al, 2009, p. 103). Though these roles are complementary, they have also at times been conflicting. This push and pull has also been sewn into the historical

The Constitution grants Congress the power raise and maintain the armed forces, establish rules that govern those forces, and above all – declare war. The Framers of the Constitution intentionally designed Congress to have a collective control over war, thus granting the legislature authroity over offensive campaigns. In comparision, the president, as commander in chief, has the ability to use force to protect American sovergneity and American lives. Consequently, the U.S. national security policy process includes countless opportunities to delay or block action.

The United States and China have had a well-documented rocky relationship. It has become common knowledge that America is in debt to China for around a trillion dollars. With countries like the United States indebted to them, there seems to little doubt that China is well on it's way to becoming a super power. Author John Tkacik agrees with this notion, and suggests that all evidence points to China becoming a military superpower. He goes on to state that in less than a decade, China will become America's only competition for both military or strategic influences. On the other hand, however, author Samuel Bleicher disagrees due to the disadvantages of having a Communist government, as well as, weak economic, social, and legal structure. He

9/11/01, the day the United States of America lost its security, since then the US has been updating our defenses. Barack Obama is updating our defenses by giving law enforcement new survallience tools and weapons. “Rather than defining our entire national security policy, this counterterrorism strategy is one part of President Obama’s larger National Security Strategy, which seeks to advance our enduring national security interests, including our security, prosperity, respect for universal values and global cooperation to meet global challenges.” Says Barack Obama

During every period of conflict we observe how our economy shifts to stabilize and support such massive military movements. We will be going through 3 major Department of Defense evolutions during times of conflict to compare those to how economically we must fight a 4th generation, non-conventional war.

The future of security will be forever linked to September 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked the United States in one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in world history. In Robert Fischer’s textbook Introduction to Security, he states, “In 2003 Security Management asked security managers, business executives, Wall Street analysts, and others for their perspective on how the events of September 11, 2001 had impacted security. In general, their report shows that security has become more visible and important to the business enterprise.” While some may not like the intrusion of more security in the world, the bottom line is the need for physical and technological security has increased.