The U.S. Army War College Guide to National Security Issues. Volume 1: Theory of War and Strategy

The article is devoted to the study of such an important aspect of the activities of the World Russian People's Council (until 1995 it was called the World Russian Council) in the 90-s of the 20-th century as a discussion of national security issues and nuclear disarmament. At that time, a number of political and public figures actively called for the nuclear disarmament of Russia. Founded in 1993, the World Russian Council called for the Russian Federation to maintain a reasonable balance between reducing the arms race and fighting for the resumption of detente in international relations, on the one hand, and maintaining a powerful nuclear component of the armed forces of the country, on the other. The resolutions of the World Russian Council and the World Russian People's Council on the problems of the new concepts formation of foreign policy and national security of Russia in the context of NATO's eastward movement are analyzed in the article. It also shows the relationship between the provisions of the WRNS on security and nuclear weapons issues with Chapter VIII of the «Fundamentals of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church».

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Covert Action: United States Law in Substance, Process, and Practice

The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195375886.003.0036 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 586-607 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

James E. Baker

Keyword(s):

National Security ◽

Executive Branch ◽

Legal Practice ◽

Legal Regime ◽

Covert Action ◽

The Third ◽

Definition Of ◽

Traditional Activity ◽

The U.S

This article discusses covert action within the context of the U.S. law. The first section describes the main elements of the U.S. legal regime, including the definition of covert action and the “traditional activity” exceptions, the elements of a covert action finding, and the thresholds and requirements for congressional notification. The second section describes some of the significant limitations on the conduct of covert action. The third section discusses the nature of executive branch legal practice in this area of the law. And the last section draws conclusions about the role of national security law within the context of covert action.

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The Troubled Inheritance: The National Security Agency and the Obama Administration

The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195375886.003.0015 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 241-256

Author(s):

Matthew M. Aid

Keyword(s):

Data Processing ◽

National Security ◽

Bush Administration ◽

Intelligence Community ◽

National Security Agency ◽

Obama Administration ◽

Policy Issues ◽

The U.S ◽

The Coordinator ◽

Signals Intelligence

This article discusses the National Security Agency under the Obama Administration. Upon his inauguration on January 20, 2009, Obama inherited from the Bush administration an intelligence community embroiled in political controversies. Of the sixteen agencies of the intelligence community, the National Security Agency (NSA) faced the greatest scrutiny from the new Obama administration and the Congress. NSA was the largest and the most powerful member of the U.S. intelligence community. Since its formation in 1952, NSA has managed and directed all U.S. government signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection. It is the collector and processor of communications intelligence (COMINT) and the primary processor of foreign instrumentation signals intelligence (FISINT). And since 1958, NSA has been the coordinator of the U.S. government's national electronics intelligence (ELINT) program. It has also the task of overseeing the security of the U.S. government's communications and data processing systems, and since the 1980s, NSA has managed the U.S. government's national operation security (OPSEC) program. In this article, the focus is on the challenges faced by the NSA during the Bush administration; the role played by the NSA during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; and the challenges faced by the Obama administration in confronting a series of thorny legal and policy issues relating to NSA's eavesdropping program.

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