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Human Rights (Freedom and Security) Military Expenses 2010 War
Security "Freedom from danger: safety; freedom from fear and anxiety" Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 2004 I compiled the following quotes today, extracting definitions from Wikipedia: National Security. I handed them out at today's Political Focus discussion about "The US Military and Foreign Policy" as part of the McHenry County College RAP (Retired Adults Program). I also handed out an Excel spreadsheet "2010 Military Expenditures" converted below to a JPG. National Security "the protection or the safety of a country’s secrets and its citizens" Macmillan Dictionary online, 2010 "a nation has security when it does not have to sacrifice its legitimate interests to avoid war, and is able, if challenged, to maintain them by war". Walter Lippmann, war correspondent, 1943 "The distinctive meaning of national security means freedom from foreign dictation." Harold Lasswell, political scientist, 1950 "An ambiguous symbol meaning different things to different people. National security objectively means the absence of threats to acquired values and subjectively, the absence of fear that such values will be attacked." Arnold Wolfers (1960), talks of threats to acquired values "National security is an appropriate and aggressive blend of political resilience and maturity, human resources, economic structure and capacity, technological competence, industrial base and availability of natural resources and finally the military might." National Defence (sic.) College of India, 1966 "National security then is the ability to preserve the nation's physical integrity and territory; to maintain its economic relations with the rest of the world on reasonable terms; to preserve its nature, institution, and governance from disruption from outside; and to control its borders." Harold Brown, former Secretary of Defence, 1983 "National security... is best described as a capacity to control those domestic and foreign conditions that the public opinion of a given community believes necessary to enjoy its own self-determination or autonomy, prosperity and wellbeing." Charles Maier, Harvard professor, 1990 "The measurable state of the capability of a nation to overcome the multi-dimensional threats to the apparent well-being of its people and its survival as a nation-state at any given time, by balancing all instruments of state policy through governance,that can be indexed by computation, empirically or otherwise,and is extendable to global security by variables external to it." Prabhakaran Paleri, author of National Security, Imperatives and Challenges, 2008 (see Military Expenses 2010) |