Lesson 18 - National Security Concerns

Question 1

is an open, armed and organized resistance against a constituted authority

Answer 1

Rebellion or insurrection

Question 2

is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.

Answer 2

Terrorism

Question 3

applies to a measurable degree of damage or destruction up to and including a state beyond use or repair, or it may indicate a state wherein such damage is occurring and continuing.

Answer 3

Crime

Question 4

is defined in most countries as the unlawful killing of another human being with intent (or malice), and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of homicide.

Answer 4

Murder

Question 5

is the crime of taking or attempting to take something of value by force or threat of force and/or by putting the victim in fear.

Answer 5

Hijacking/Highway robbery

Question 6

is the taking away or transportation of a person against the person’s will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment, a confinement without legal authority

Answer 6

Kidnapping or serious illegal detention

Question 7

The main internal threat arises from the ______, ________ which, in open rebellion against the government, has the avowed objective of establishing an independent Islamic state in the Southern Philippines.

Answer 7

Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Abu Sayaf Group (ASG)

Question 8

continue to pose a serious threat to national security, although presently weakened in comparison with their peak strength in the last two decades.

Answer 8

Communist Part of the Philippines/New People Army/ National Democratic Front (CCP/NPA/NDF)

Question 9

is a national security concern. The challenge of illegal drugs, in particular, has grown into major threat to the national community.

Answer 9

Organized crime

Question 10

is also a serious threat to national security which breeds and abets rebellion, crime, and dissidence. Poverty incidence affects about one-third of Filipino families nationwide

Answer 10

Grave incidence of poverty

Question 11

undermines the market economy, the financial system, and the nation’s resources.

Answer 11

Economic sabotage

Question 12

has become another threat to our national security by virtue of the huge scale by which it saps public resources, undermines the morale of the civil service and affects the delivery of quality basic services.

Answer 12

Graft and corruption

Question 13

cause serious food shortages and hoarding and profiteering resulting in hunger, disease and deprivation.

Answer 13

Severe calamities

Question 14

poses a long-term security threat

Answer 14

Persistent environment degradation

Question 15

has proliferated in the era of globalization.

Answer 15

Transnational organized crime

Question 16

will continue to pervade the global security agenda.

Answer 16

Natural disaster and environment

Question 17

growing global threat, as experienced with computer viruses such as Melissa and Chernobyl, which have attacked isolated or networked information systems through the internet or through software carriers and devices

Answer 17

Cybernetic crime