“National security 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.”
“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 security… is best described as the 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.”
The oath of allegiance to the state and the commitment to the national security is paramount when one becomes an intelligence officer. Many intelligence agencies including open source work hard to ensure the government of the day performs and remains stable on the long-term. The work of the intelligence organizations is to pre-empt national security threats. As such, we define, National security as the requirement to maintain the survival of the state using economic, diplomacy, power projection and political power.
Recent revelations about how evidence provided by the NSIS to the ICC and the Waki report confound how useless, unable, and un-secretive the NSIS is. Intelligence organizations are secretive and rather objective. They are scouts, always gathering vital information and making analysis that suffice to ensure long-term intactness of the political aspect of their masters besides safeguarding the country from threats.
It is also important to note that NSIS reports besides evidence provided by the ICC prosecutor Moreno Ocampo were regarded as unsatisfactory by judge Hans Kaul after the Monday ruling.
Judge Kaul said that he
