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APNewsBreak: Obama adopts new strategy to protect sources of US goods globally
DAVOS, Switzerland — President Barack Obama adopted a new strategy Wednesday declaring for the first time that the United States has a national security interest in protecting economic goods against terrorists, criminals and natural disasters in all ...
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India faces welter of problems from security to Maoism: RSS
Place: Patna | Agency: PTI Observing that a welter of problems ranging from external threats, terrorism, Maoism and FDI posed a serious challenge to national sovereignty, the RSS today urged the government to put in place a security infrastructure and ...
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Cyber Security Success Must Come From Highest Executive Levels, Government and ...
Through the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002 and related policy, Dodson said, NIST is mandated to create standards, guidance, best practices, measurements, and test tools for national security. According to Dodson, NIST is ...
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West making case to Israel: Don't attack Iran
By Anne Gearan AP National Security Writer / February 2, 2012 WASHINGTON—Israel's major allies in the West are working hard to talk it out of a unilateral military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, arguing forcefully that an attack ultimately would ...
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Nigeria: National Security - Where Are We Heading?
... so far by the Boko Haram group, we all must at this point move beyond mere condemnation to taking collective decisive steps as a people and collaborate with security agencies to bring this national shame and threat to our existence to a halt.
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Center Releases Reports: Potential Economic Impacts of Proposed Defense Cuts
Washington, DC February 1, 2012 - The Center for Security Policy today released their “Defense Breakdown Economic Impact Reports,” a collection of 2750 online detailed reports and 51 Summary Reports presenting a “National Average” estimated economic ...
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Democratic Sclerosis and National Strategy
National security is managed at the highest level by the president using the National Security Council to develop a National Security Strategy which serves as the base guidance for protecting national security. The Defense Department inputs to this ...
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Source: Plans to turn over Taliban Gitmo detainees in works
... measure to further peace talks with the Afghan Taliban – a development that comes in advance of a hearing Thursday where senior intelligence officials will testify on national security threats, a senior congressional official told Fox News.
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Intelligence Doesn't Support Obama's Upbeat View of Afghanistan
Intelligence reports are at odds with claims by President Barack Obama and other top US officials that the Taliban are in retreat, Afghan security forces are growing stronger and the Afghan government is becoming more effective. A National Intelligence ...
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