Name: Reca Marie N.

Frias Yr & Section: BSMLS 1-A

Date Performed: Nov. 8, 2020 Score:_______________

ACTIVITY 9: NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERS

Answer the following questions briefly:

1. What are the Components of National Security Council?

The National Security Councils composed of the following:

 President  Secretary of National Defense

 Secretary of Interior and Local
 Vice President Government
 Secretary of Justice
 AFP Chief of Staff  Secretary of Labor and
Employment
 National Security Council Director

 Executive Secretary

 Secretary of Foreign Affairs

2. What are the seven (7) fundamental elements that amplify national

security?
 External peace
 Socio-political stability
 Ecological balance
 Territorial integrity  Cultural cohesiveness

 Economic solidarity and strengths

 Moral-spiritual consensus
3. Explain briefly the seven (7) internal threats that undermine national

security.

 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is the main internal threat. It is an

open rebellion against the government, has avowed objective of

establishing an independent Islamic state in Southern Philippines.

 Communist Party of the Philippines/New People’s Army/National

Democratic Front (CPP/NPA/NDF). It continues to pose a serious threat

to national security, although presently weakened in comparison with

their peak strength in the 1985-1987 period.

 Organized crime is a national security concern because the challenge of

illegal drugs, in particular, has grown into a major threat to the national

community.

 Grave incidence of poverty is a serious threat, especially to the extent

that it breeds and abets rebellion, crime, and dissidence. Poverty

incidence affects about one-third of Filipino families nationwide.

 Economic sabotage undermines the market economy, the financial

system, and the nation’s resources. It includes underground activities

such as counterfeiting, money laundering, large-scale smuggling, inter-

oceanic poaching, and commercial dumping.

 Graft and corruption has become a threat by virtue of the huge scale by
 which is saps public resources, undermines the morale of the civil

service, and affects the delivery of quality basic services.

 Severe calamities cause serious food shortages and abet hoarding and

profiteering resulting in hunger, disease, and deprivation. Over the past

ten years, the disaster toll stands at more than 16,000 lives lost and ₱

375 billion worth of property destroyed.

 Persistent Environment degradation poses a long-term security threat.

The attrition of forests and watersheds, air-land-water pollution, and

the proliferation of toxic substances are the causes of sickness, death,

and diminution of national productivity and well-being.

4. Comment on the following threats of external aggression against our

country.

a) Ethnic, religious, and cultural conflicts

Ethnic, religious, and cultural conflicts pervade many regions and nations,

including our own. It is constantly exacerbated by mass poverty, limited

access to resources, denial of human rights, lack of national integration,

and international issues.

b) Transnational organized crime

Transnational organized crime has proliferated in the era of globalization.

The International Monetary Fund estimates that global drug trafficking now

accounts for two percent of the world economy, excluding illicit capital

flight and money laundering activity.

c) Cybernetic crime

Cybernetic crime is a growing global threat, as experienced with computer

viruses such as Melissa and Chernobyl, which have attacked isolated or

networked information systems through the internet or through software

carriers and devices.