Case Study: Cuban Missile Crisis-A National Security Emergency

2009 ◽  
pp. 177-201
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Cuban Missile Crisis

scholarly journals Investigation of Nanogrids for Improved Navy Installation Energy Resilience

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 4298
Author(s):  
Alissa Kain ◽  
Douglas L. Van Bossuyt ◽  
Anthony Pollman
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Critical Loads ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Military Bases ◽  
Specific Interest ◽  
The Military

Military bases perform important national security missions. In order to perform these missions, specific electrical energy loads must have continuous, uninterrupted power even during terrorist attacks, adversary action, natural disasters, and other threats of specific interest to the military. While many global military bases have established microgrids that can maintain base operations and power critical loads during grid disconnect events where outside power is unavailable, many potential threats can cause microgrids to fail and shed critical loads. Nanogrids are of specific interest because they have the potential to protect individual critical loads in the event of microgrid failure. We present a systems engineering methodology that analyzes potential nanogrid configurations to understand which configurations may improve energy resilience and by how much for critical loads from a national security perspective. This then allows targeted deployment of nanogrids within existing microgrid infrastructures. A case study of a small military base with an existing microgrid is presented to demonstrate the potential of the methodology to help base energy managers understand which options are preferable and justify implementing nanogrids to improve energy resilience.

The post-politics of public-private security governance: An ideology critique of the complaints about Facebook

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Jeppe T. Jacobsen
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Ideology Critique ◽  
Security Governance ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
History Of

AbstractHow do public protests emerge and become impotent? Inspired by Žižek's ideology critique, the article examines the ideological underpinnings of contemporary public-private security governance and suggests that worried, complaining subjects are a product of a dominant discourse of expert knowledge and technification. It then introduces three Žižekian dynamics that prevent protests from challenging the prevailing discourse – particularisation, ultra-politics, and cynicism – and illustrates these dynamic through a case study of the history of public complaints about Facebook. The article suggests that Facebook communicates through a discourse of technification whereby it constantly invents technological fixes unable to satisfy the complaints. The article further suggests that Facebook turning into a national security partner in the fight against terrorism online prevents complaints from becoming universalised by rendering even particularised privacy contestations illegitimate. This is reinforced, the article argues, by the subject's cynical enjoyment; that is, the ‘letting off steam’ on Facebook while criticising it.

Eisenhower’s Mutual Security Program: Taiwan as a ‘Strategic Bargain’

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-55
Author(s):  
Eric Setzekorn
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Eisenhower Administration ◽  
Military Education ◽  
Military Force ◽  
American Military ◽  
Military Aid ◽  
Strategic Program ◽  
Strategic Policies

Upon entering office in January 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower faced the challenge of satisfying the seemingly incompatible requirements of ensuring u.s. national security, especially in politically unstable East Asia, while limiting military spending. He adopted a robust policy of military aid, defense support, and security partnerships to limit American costs, while presenting a credible military force posture. This article examines the place the Mutual Security Program (msp) occupied in Eisenhower’s strategic policies and the role American military aid and advising played in developing a defensive military force on Taiwan. This case study provides compelling evidence of how Eisenhower’s mutual security program of allied “army building,” focusing on the development of military institutions, particularly military education, was an essential, but underappreciated, counterpart to the “New Look” strategic program. In particular, u.s. support for Taiwan during the Eisenhower administration was a key “strategic bargain,” where it could create a low-cost deterrent capability without the deployment of u.s. combat forces, and develop durable government institutions in allied Asian nations.

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