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