In a world with planes that break the sound barrier and missiles that can pilot themselves halfway around the globe in mere hours, there are no physical boundaries a country can put on its national security. In a simpler time, a ruler could keep a strong perimeter and never have to worry about his national security until someone broke it. But now not only do we have to worry about being nuked from across the Pacific, we have to worry about being bombed from inside our own country, and apparently they're telling us the debt is a threat to national security now too.
Pictured above: The National Debt
Who can keep track of all that threat? Not I. So I'm going to break it down nice and simple: anything and anyone that threatens the safety and security of the nation as a whole, is national security. This does not include things that are only threatening to a small, select group of Americans, only things that threaten us all or our national identity. In that respect national security has no limits, no matter what, no matter where, if it was a threat to us all, national security would take care of it. But in another sense, it would have boundaries of who/how many it could protect. Another boundary of national security must be personal freedoms. For example, if smoking related deaths were considered a matter of national security, we would risk losing that identity that we work so hard to protect.
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