THREATS TO

NATIONAL
SECURITY
Every nation faces
threats. These
threats can be social,
such as aggression
from a neighboring
country, infiltration In other cases, threats
from a terrorist can be natural, such as
group or global hurricanes or viral
economic trends pandemics. Any threat
that compromise the challenges a nation’s
nation’s welfare power and disrupts its
well-being.
The field of
national security Crucially, national
safeguards security and global
against such security aren’t the Global security
threats. National same thing. involves a coalition
security protects National security of nations working
not only citizens involves a national together to ensure
but also the gove r n m e n t that each of them
e c o n o m i c w o r k i n g may enjoy peace
stability of autonomously to and stability; this is
n a t i o n a l protect its citizens a guiding principle
institutions. from threats. of organizations like
the United Nations.
The government wants to
protect society from
disruption owing to a
disaster or crisis.
With its National Security
Strategy, it is examining
the threats, how to prevent
them, and what to do if a
disaster occurs.
 Territorial Security:
National security This would be jeopardized by a military
is at stake when occupation, but also by prolonged flooding
one or mor e of Economic Security:
o u r c o u n t r y ’s A major internet or electrical breakdown
vital interests are would disrupt online financial transactions;
threatened.
Those inter ests
are: Ecological Security:
Damage to the environment from pollution
or extreme heat or drought;
National security Physical Security:
is at stake when Deaths, injuries and chronic illnesses
one or mor e of caused by flooding or a pandemic;
o u r c o u n t r y ’s
vital interests are Social and Political Stability:
threatened. Violations of the rule of law caused by
Those inter ests t e n s i o n s b e t w e e n c o m m u n i t i e s, f o r
are: instance.
 Anything that threatens
the physical well-being
of the p o p u l a t i o n o r
jeopardizes the stability
WHAT IS of a nation’s economy
NATIONAL
or institutions is
SECURITY
THREAT?
considered a national
security threat. National
security threats can be
fur ther broken down
into groups.
CLASSIFICATION of THREATS to NATIONAL SECURITY
NATURAL THREATS MAN-MADE THREATS

Disaster/Calamities
WHAT ARE THE THREATS to NATIONAL SECURITY?

To be able to analyze the level

of security, one must:

1. Define what our priorities are.

2. What we need to prioritize

3. Whose security do we need

to emphasize
 HOSTILE
GOVERNMENTS These threats may
Some national include direct acts of war
security threats and aggression, but they
come from foreign can also be subtler and
governments with harder to detect.
hostile intentions.

Examples include
espionage and election
interference.
 Te r r o r i s t g r o u p s m a y
TERRORISM seek to cause chaos and
Countries also disruption through
face threats from physical violence or, in
groups who don’t some cases, cybercrime.
formally represent
a f o r e i g n
government but
may be sponsored
or tolerated by
foreign powers.
One of the most
common threats to the
national security of our
country is TERRORISM. In the Philippines, most
of the insurgency were
caused by the r ebel
groups (CPP-NPA-NDF)
and the terrorists group
ABBUSAYAF. The actions of these
groups oftentimes
causes conflicts and
wars.
 SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP of CPP-NPA-NDF
C o m m u n i s t Pa r t y o f t h e National Democratic Front
Philippines (CPP) (NDF)
(December 26, 1968) (April 24, 1973)
• BRAIN • ARM
• POLITICAL LEADERSHIP • PROPAGANDA
• FRONT
New People’s Army (NPA) • U M B R E L L A
(March 29, 1969) ORGANIZATION for the
• REBEL ARMED GROUP PARTY
• ATROCITIES • ALLIANCE & INFILTRATED
• EXTORTION GROUPS
• OFFENSIVES to AFP/PNP
 5 STAGES of RECRUITMENT (CPP-NPA-NDF)
5. NPA
4. CANDIDATE
MEMBER
3. PROSPECTIVE
CANDIDATE
MEMBER
2. ACTIVIST
1. MASS
MEMBER
STUDENT/S
 MASS
STUDENTS
MEMBERS

Upon signing the membership, the students

automatically become MASS MEMBERS of the NPA
 MASS
ACTIVISTS
MEMBERS

From a MERE STUDENT to a REFORMIST.

Always on the front line.
 PROSPECTIVE
ACTIVIST CANDIDATE
MEMBER

From a REFORMIST to a REVOLUTIONARY (RADICAL ACTIVIST)

Discussion on 3 ISMS and having
convinced that the 3 ISMS are evils
of society. CAPITALISM
COMMUNISM
SOCIALISM
 PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATE
CANDIDATE MEMBER
MEMBER

Study on the books of KARL MARX,

LENIN & MAO TSE TUNG

They were all communist leaders.

 FULL PLEDGED
CANDIDATE MEMBER of
MEMBER the CPP-NPA-
NDF
Performs all the duty of a full-pledged
member of the organization.
 CNN AOM (GOP)
IDEOLOGICAL Arouse-Organize-Mobilize
STRATEGY (Galitin-Organisahin-Pakilusin)

Sandatahang Yunit Propaganda (SYP)

7-9 members
 PROLIFERATION
An enemy state doesn’t
have to take direct
aggressive action for it
to register as a potential
threat to national
security. The idea of proliferation,
specifically with regard to
advanced weaponry, may
also be taken into
account.
 PROLIFERATION
Proliferation, or the spread of
weapons of mass destruction,
does not only involve the
development or purchase of these
weapons and their means of
delivery as such, but also buying
or otherwise obtaining (procuring)
the goods and knowledge
required for Weapon for Mass
Destruction (WMD) development.
 PROLIFERATION
If a hostile state is known
to be stockpiling chemical
weapons, developing
n u cl ear cap ab i l i t i es o r
otherwise escalating its
capacity for destruction, it
qualifies as a national
security threat, even
without using those
weapons in a direct attack.
 NATURAL DISASTERS
AND DISEASES
Not all threats to national
security involve the
malignant influence of bad Pandemics like
actors. Hurricanes, C O V I D - 1 9
earthquakes and other weaken health
natural disasters can pose care systems
serious damage to a and economies.
nation’s people and
physical infrastructure.
1. PANDEMIC THREATS
For a recent example of a
national security threat,
look no fur ther than the
COVID-19 pandemic.
While pandemics can unfold
on a global scale, different
countries face them in
d i f f e r e n t w a y s, o f t e n t o
varying levels of success.
1. PANDEMIC THREATS
This still-unfolding global
health crisis demonstrates
how widespread disease
endangers not only the
physical wellness of
citizens but also Meanwhile, global
socioeconomic structures. responses to COVID-19
have highlighted how
governments can protect
against such crises.
 2. BIOLOGICAL
WARFARE However, histor y also
Some diseases occur provides many examples
naturally and not through of biological weapons
any act of malignancy or being harnessed to cause
hostility. widespread terror.
Biological warfare poses a
significant thr ea t to na tional
security, yet governments can put
into place important safeguards to
minimize this risk.
 3. CYBER
TERRORISM
Cyber terrorism In India, a group
provides another of human rights
national security activists was
threat. targeted by
The Center for Strategic terrorists who
and International infected their
Studies, a global think computers with
tank, reports dozens of malware.
incidents of cyber
terrorism in 2020 alone.
 3. CYBER TERRORISM
Suspected Nor th Korean
hackers compromised two These are just two of
prominent European the countless
d e f e n s e f i r m s, s e n d i n g examples of
them fake job offers as a criminals using
way to infiltrate their hacking and other
systems and retrieve nefarious digital
classified information. schemes to cause
disruption and chaos.
 However, because this is a
threat that all nations face,
4. Climate Change and
and because much of the
National Security
work done to fight climate
Climate change may also
change is done through
be considered a national
inter na tional coalitions,
security threat as its long-
climate change is more often
term effects may bring
regarded as a global
disastrous ecological
security issue.
consequences.
1. The procurement of
illegal goods. 2. Illicit services, such
as human trafficking
Transnational crime
may take a number of
forms, including the
following:
3. Business infiltration
4. Drug trafficking and racketeering
 Keeping the Country
and Its People Safe
Wide-ranging threats
imperil every nation.
It’s vital for governments to put
national security and emergency
response ef for ts in place,
allowing them to identify and
thwar t any natural or human-
made disruptions to peace,
safety and stability.
“Keeping the country safe
from ter rorism is a huge
collective ef for t, only
possible with incr edible
support from the public. It is
a task that requires 100% of
our focus. Our focus is not
on lawful protest or
legitimate causes taken up
by activists across the
country”
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon
NSTP Implementers