NSTP National Security Reflective Essay

National security involves defending a nation from several threats, both internal and external. Internally, lack of education, unemployment, and corruption can lead some to join terrorist groups like the NPA. The NPA specifically targets rural and impoverished areas, as well as student groups, for recruitment by taking advantage of these societal issues. A well-informed population is important for national security, but some governments prefer to keep people uninformed to maintain control. Overall change needs to start from within each citizen in order to transform a nation.

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NATIONAL SECURITY

No Terrorist is born, they are just created. Now again the question is that who creates the Terrorists?
Answer is “We”.
As we generally says that a child’s mind is just like blank paper, it depends upon the parents, teachers and
the society who writes on that paper. Its our society and our system who creates terrorists.

The absence of education is the primary why people joins NPA. Illiteracy or people who lack education
are more likely to join terror groups. In comparison to the educated majority, brainwashing such people is
simple. Also a lack of government support, many Filipinos in rural areas, primarily farmers and
indigenous people, are persuaded to join these communists. There are also issues such as crooked
politicians and wealthy people who use their riches and clout to resolve difficulties such as land disputes.
These poor individuals believe they have no one to turn to for assistance, and they are misled by
communists into joining/supporting them.

It is not simply farmers in rural areas who are being brainwashed by these communists; students from
state colleges are also being brainwashed by these communists via those so-called “student groups” for
the reasons stated above. I’m not making broad generalizations about these student organizations, but
communists have already penetrated many of them.

Unemployment is another thing to consider. When degree holders are unable to find suitable employment,
they turn to terrorism. Frustration over their lack of job leads them to engage in illegal activities in order
to make a living. Terrorists utilize religion to recruit young people into their organizations.

These student recruits have also been assassinated by their own colleagues in the past. Years ago,
Kathleen Ramos (who was recruited through a student group called League of Filipino Students)
experienced something similar. However, there are many who support these communists out of fear.
People are being intimidated if they do not pay a “revolutionary tax” (which is simply simple extortion)
demanded by these communists.

National security is a wide term that encompasses several aspects of a country’s sovereignty. It includes
defense against foreign military action, defense of a nation’s economy, defense of a nation’s financial
systems, defense of a nation’s government and businesses that contribute to its GNP from cyber attack,
and defense against political actions that would destabilize its government, such as manipulation of social
media in a way that breeds distrust among its people for its government.

A strong military, good intelligence so leaders understand the scale and source of threats, and awareness
of the potential for social media to destabilize the government are all required to safeguard a nation on all
of these fronts. The threat of a disease (such as COVID-19) destroying the economy and weakening the
military is now included in national security.

A sovereign nation is similar to a living, breathing creature with a variety of processes that contribute to
its overall health and ability to remain “alive” as a nation. Any attack to any of those complex,
interconnected systems must be considered a national security threat. Even for countries, the world is a
hazardous place, and many forces are at work to harm them or bring them down so that they might be
taken over by others. Consider all of those challenges and forces to be national security risks, and create
an infrastructure to address each one so that the country remains militarily, economically, and politically
strong.

The most important strong us student can do to protect our country’s security is to learn about the threats
that exist both in internally and externally Once we’ve been adequately informed, we’ll be able to see
potential dangers and compromises, as well as select the best course of action. However, we must never
forget that our first responsibility as students is to complete our education and become responsible
members of society. That could be the most significant contribution we can make to our country’s
security.

This is the best way to ensure national security is for everyone to understand that it is their obligation to
be prepared to protect their country’s security. This necessitates a population that is well-informed and
aware. Most governments are opposed to this because those in authority do not want to relinquish power
to their constituents. Because of this reluctance to relinquish control, many governments would prefer to
have an illiterate and uninformed public to whom they can dictate what is and is not harmful, as well as
how the government would protect the people on the government’s terms.

For the time being, this is proving to be challenging. Changing the Philippines will necessitate a change in
each and every Filipino. Because the sum total of it all is equal to every Filipino’s ideas, desires, wants,
and hearts. It would be extremely difficult to persuade the majority to change their minds. Change, on the
other hand, I believe begins with us. Your simple proclamation of desire for change (for the Philippines)
is your contribution in and of itself.