6-War and Security

Question 1

What is national security?

Answer 1

the ability of a state to protect its interests, secrets, and citizens from internal and external threats

Question 2

What is war?

Answer 2

war is an organized and deliberate political act by an established political authority that causes 1,000 or more deaths in a 12-month period and involves at least two actors capable of harming each other

Question 3

What is unconventional warfare?

Answer 3

willingness to flout restrictions on legitimate targets of violence

refusal to accept the traditional outcomes of battles

Question 4

What is terrorism?

Answer 4

nonstate actors

using violence against noncombatants

to achieve a political objective