EHC 101 Study guide for test 1
Special operations
Army special operations forces: are those Active and Reserve Component Army forces designated by the Secretary of Defense that are specifically organized, trained, and equipped to conduct and support special operations. They include five organizations: Special Forces, Rangers, Special Operations
Three national interests critical to national security
Citizens economy and institutions
GRU Russia
Directorate of the general staff of Russian Armed forces
FDR second bill of rights 1944
Farmers rights, freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
Social economic safety net
Includes welfare, unemployment and so on
Ministry of State Security
Intelligence, security and secret police CHINA
Long term energy security
Reducing dependence on any one energy source, increasing number of suppliers, exploiting fossil fuels, reducing demand through energy conservation.
contest (United Kingdom)
United Kingdom counterterrorism
Weapons of mass destruction
a chemical, biological or radioactive weapon capable of causing widespread death and destruction.
Types of natural disasters
earthquake, hurricane, flood
MI6
organization in charge of covert operations in the United Kingdom
Presidental oath of office
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Econ effects of 9/11
430,000 jobs were lost, 2.8 billion lost in wages.
Polticial security
Bill of rights, constituions
Coordinated Action required for homeland security
Bush organized a homeland security divison, featuring many new agencies and included 169,000 employees
Indirect infrastructure effects
Cascading disruption and financial consequences for government, society, and economy through public- and private-sector reactions to an attack.
Competitiveness
Componnent of economic security
Fourth-gen warfare
Conflict characterized by a blurring of the lines between war and politics, combatants and civilians.
future military op environment
Contemporary operating enviornment,. Which captures the current and future operation enviornment
View of homeland security by british
Domestic intel ran by MI5
Exploitation of infrastructure
Exploitation of elements of a particular infrastructure to disrupt or destroy another target
First amend
Freedom of speech, religion, and press
Federal intelligence service
German foreign intelligence service
Examples of key assets
Governmental facilities, nuclear power plants, dams
3 strategic objectives in national strategy
Identifying and protection infrastructure and assets, provide timely warnings
Asynchronous warfare
It consists of actions or events not directly related to the current situation or conducted in direct response to current actions. It is a way of timing actions to generate asymmetries that create situational advantages
National Security Act
It established the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Council.
Mossad (Israel)
National intelligence agency of Israel
Ninth amendment
People's rights are not limited to those listed in the Constitution
Fourth Amendment
Protects against unreasonable search and seizure
1791 Report on Manufactures
Report that projected the role of the united states place in the world and the economy. Also urged congress to start manufacturing.
Responsibilities of Canada (public safety)
Responsibile for overall public safety of Canada
Sixth Amendment
Right to a speedy and public trial
negative rights
Rights a government may not infringe upon
Economic security in an era of globalization
Secure global systems of travel and trade
direct infrastructure effects
Stoppage of the functions of critical infrastructures or key assets through direct attacks on a critical node, system, or function.
Role of military in grand strategy
The American armed forces is increasingly shaped by the focus on terrorism and the need for offensive capabilities to mount preemptive attacks on terrorist groups
Positive Rights
Those rights that require overt government action, as opposed to negative rights that require government not to act in specified ways. Examples of positive rights are those to public education and, in some cases, to medical care, old age pensions, food, or housing
Political security
Threat to energy security (middle east)
U.S. Army special forces types of unconvential warfare
Three national interests critical to national security
Security Engineering
Tools, techniques and methods to support the development and maintenance of systems
Fault Tree Analysis
Top down deductive failure using boolean logic
Short term security issues gasoline
U.S. imports 60 percent of oil, substantial production of oil is in middle east, oil producing countries have a limited sparce capacity.
National security strategy after the cold war
US grand strategy continues to be basically one of global engagement
Self-determination
`Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
Nature centric
a philosophy or perspective that places intrinsic value on all living organisms and their natural environment, regardless of their perceived usefulness or importance to human beings.`
Energy security
association between national security and the availability of natural resources for energy consumption
Human Centric
business management process approach that focuses on the tasks, activities and human skills in processes, to create other automated functions to support these human actions.
Economic security
condition of having stable income or other resources to support a standard of living now and in the foreseeable future.
Special operations
conducted by specially organized, trained, and equipped military and paramilitary forces to achieve military, political, economic, or informational objectives by unconventional military means in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive areas.
Homefront command
created to improve easy cooperation between the military, first responders, and government in Israel
Preamble to the Constitution
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity
United States grand strategy for national security
fostering strong alliances and bilateral security arrangements;49 maintaining a strong and survivable nuclear deterrent; fielding balanced, powerful,
political instability
includes riots, revolutions, civil disorders, and frequent changes in government
Physical security
protecting the territory and people of a nation-state against attack in order to ensure survival with fundamental values and institutions intact
racial profiling
singling out an individual as a suspect due to appearance of ethnicity
Geopolitical risks
sociopolitical, legal, infrastructure
Independent system theory
study of the abstract organization of phenomena, independent of their substance, type, or spatial or temporal scale of existence.
Physical security systems
systems that protect physical spaces such as residences, commercial offices, and other facilities, or even entire countries
Assemyetric warfare
war between belligerents with different military power and tactics
Critical Infrastructure
water, postal and shipping, telecommunication networks
