“One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.” StatesReasonProblemSpeakCommunitySecurityElementsSolutionsDefenseDepartmentStaffNational SecurityFbiHomelandSpeaks OutHomeland SecurityCounter TerrorismDepartment Of Homeland Security Author:John Poindexter
“Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have only a few minutes to decide whether to fire his nuclear weapons or lose them in response to what could be a false warning?” YearsWarStatesPresidentInterestLosesFireMinutesSecurityPolicyColdWeaponsResponseNuclearRussiaWarningNuclear WeaponsCold WarNational SecuritySeventeenNuclear Bomb Author:Sam Nunn
“Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.” NeedsStatesNationsLandSecurityCitizensDemandAuthorityIsraelCapabilitySovereignNational SecurityHistoricTransfersGaza Author:Menachem Begin
“The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.” WorldShouldStatesRiskConditionsSecuritySafeThreatTransitionPassagesRegimesStableShelterNational SecurityCurvesSlidesModernityInstability Author:Ian Bremmer