CGA CAPT STEVEN JAMES G DIÑO CSP
NATIONAL SECURITY DEFINED
▪The protection of the nation’s people and
territories from external physical assault.
▪A state or condition, wherein the people’s
way of life and institutions, their territorial
integrity and sovereignty, as well as their
welfare and well-being are protected and
enhanced.
FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE NATIONAL
SECURITY COUNCIL
▪ ELEMENTS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
1. Territorial Integrity
2. Ecological Balance
3. Socio-political Stability
4. Economic Solidarity
5. Cultural Cohesiveness
6. Moral / Spiritual Consensus
7. External Peace
NEW CONCEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY
▪Focused on threats to over- all
security of the country, i.e. Attacks
to peace, stability, sovereignty and
territorial integrity.
THREE KINDS OF THREATS TO NATIONAL
SECURITY
1. EXTERNAL
2. DOMESTIC
3. NATURAL - EXISTENTIAL
▪DEFINITION:
“Aggression from outside the
country”
1. EXTERNAL THREATS
ISSUES AFFECTING GLOBAL PEACE
✓Multilateral dispute over the Spratlys
✓Smuggling of firearms and contraband, and
illegal migration
✓currency crisis affecting the world
✓Serious economic disparity between rich
and poor nations
✓ Ethnic, religious and cultural conflicts
CONTINUATION.. ISSUES
✓Proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction (WMD)
✓Transnational Organized Crime
✓ Cybernetic Crimes
WAR
▪POTENTIAL FLASH POINTS
✓Overlapping claims in the West Philippine
Sea
✓North, South Korea, and Japan
✓Japan and China
✓India and Pakistan
✓China and Japan
✓China and India
✓Russia and Ukraine
TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM
▪EXAMPLES:
✓Islamic State Of Iraq And Syria (Isis)/
Islamic State Of Iraq And The Levant
(Isil)
✓Al Qaeda
✓Jemaah Islamiyah
▪DEFINITION:
“Aggression or problems
from within the country”
2. INTERNAL / DOMESTIC THREATS
INSURGENCY
▪EXAMPLES:
✓Communist Party Of The
Philippines (CPP)/ New People’s
Army (NPA)
✓Muslim Separatists
LOCAL TERRORISTS
▪EXAMPLES:
✓Abu Sayyaf
✓ISIS Sympathizers
✓Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom
Fighters (BIFF)
ORGANIZED CRIME
▪EXAMPLES:
✓ National Crime Syndicates
✓ Private Armies
✓ Lawless Elements
GRAVE INCIDENCE OF POVERTY
▪EXAMPLES:
✓ High Poverty Level
✓ Lack of Job Opportunities
GRAFT AND CORRUPTION
▪EXAMPLES:
✓ Lack of Effective Check and
Balance in some Government
Transactions
✓ Compromised Basic Services
ECONOMIC SABOTAGE
▪EXAMPLES:
✓ Hoarding of Goods
✓ Manipulation of Prices of Essential
Commodities
▪DEFINITION:
“Threats coming from natural
disasters and calamities”
3. NATURAL-EXISTENTIAL THREAT
CLIMATE CHANGE
▪Deterioration of natural
habitats
▪Destruction of bio-diversity
NATURAL DISASTERS
▪Increase in intensity and frequency of
natural calamities
▪Destruction and depletion of natural
resources
▪Emerging Biological Hazards i.e.
Pandemics
PRESENT ISSUES AND CONCERNS
▪Spratlys vis-à-vis United Nations’
Convention on the Law of the Sea
(UNCLOS) Arbitral Award
▪Heightened War against local Insurgency
▪ Present War between Russia and Ukraine
SITUATIONER
✓Stalled Modernization of the armed
forces of the Philippines
✓Need to further strengthen the Navy, and
the Coast Guard
✓Contentious Issue of invoking the
Arbitral Award
OTHER POINTS OF CONTENTION
✓Passage of warship through Philippine territorial waters
without permission.
✓Ramming incident at the recto bank
✓Grabbing of Scarborough shoal
✓Reclamation and militarization in the west Philippine sea
✓Blocking of re-supply missions to Pag-Asa and BRP Sierra
Madre
✓Creation of Philippine off-shore gaming operations (POGO)
✓Installation of foreign communication companies
THE INTERNAL PROBLEM OF INSURGENCY
▪Situationer
✓CPP/NPA is losing grounds and
sympathizers
✓There is massive recruitment in schools and
indigenous communities as a desperate
measure
✓Active Legal Fronts
ADDRESSING THE ISSUE
▪Counter-insurgency indoctrination drive
▪Educating and empowering the youth
focusing on their idealism, passion, strengths,
and search for identity
▪Embarking into psycho-social warfare
FACING NATURAL-EXISTENTIAL THREATS
▪Situationer:
✓Rapid melting of ice caps in the Arctic Poles
✓Sustained Global Warming
✓Extreme Pollution (oceans and the
atmosphere)
❖ Most pollutants at sea come from domestic
wastes
PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT /
REDIRECTING DRRM CONCEPTS
▪Enacting/strict implementation of
environmental laws
▪Involving all institutions and individuals
▪Formulation of initiatives and intervention
▪Introducing health and Biological
readiness in DRRM
ROLE OF THE YOUTH
✓Look back to your roots and
national identity
✓Learn more and educate others
✓Be socially conscious and
responsible
✓Be Patriotic; Patronize our own
✓Take an active role in the
community
✓And most importantly, start the
collective efforts within yourself
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