Redefining National Security

Résumé du livre

Abstract: The military's role in securing a nation's well-being and survival is relatively less important that it once was. Threats to security may now arise more from the relationship of man to nature than nation to nation. National economies must be sustained to maintain national security. Advanced indstrial economies are fueled by oil, a resource that is being exhausted. The production of the principle biological systems is threatened by excessive human claims. Global economy depends on the biological systems. Global food insecurity and associated food price instability becomes a source of political instability. Protecting and securing the future of a nation by strengthening international cooperation, developing alternative energy sources, and producing adequate food supplies are escalating in importance. Lagging energy transition, deterioration of biological systems, clmate modification, global food insecurity, and economic threats to security are addressed.