National security

:For the 2003 movie starring Martin Lawrence, see National Security.

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National security refers to the public policy of ensuring the survival and safety of the nation-state through the use of economic and military power and the exercise of diplomacy, in both peace and war.

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Public policy - Nation-state - Economic - Military - Power - Diplomacy - Peace - War

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Measures taken to ensure national security include:

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• using diplomacy to rally allies and isolate threats
• marshalling economic power to facilitate or compel cooperation
• maintaining effective armed forces
• implementing civil defense and emergency preparedness measures
• ensuring the resilience and redundancy of critical infrastructure
• using intelligence services to detect and defeat or avoid threats and espionage, and to protect classified information
• preserve a national culture unfamiliar with true dissent or antinationalism, especially in the most mainstream entertainment spaces
 
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