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You should ensure that your responses are well-supported by facts and analysis. Cite your references using APA style. (A handy APA style guide may be found at the Purdue OWL website: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html.) As an exception to APA style, you may use the short form (SWC) for references to our textbook: Sarkesian, S. C., Williams, J.A., & Cimbala, S.J. (2013). US National Security: Policymakers, processes and politics (5th ed.). Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. For links related to item #6, you may use the short form, shown in parentheses. If you use other sources, make sure you include a reference list.

1. (10 points) What is the National Security Council and why is it significant?

2. (10 points) Who is the current National Security Advisor? What is the significance of this position?

3. (10 points) How important is Congress when it comes to the national security policy process? Give real-world examples to support your position.

4. (20 points) Describe and discuss the significance of two national security organizations that are involved with implementing either a) US cyber security policy or b) US counterterrorism policy.

5. (20) Discuss four instruments/elements of national power (e.g., four of the DIMEFIL instruments). Give a real-world example of the use of each one.

6. (30 points) Choose one of the issue-areas listed below and write a response that addresses all of the following questions:

How does this situation relate to US national security? What national interests are at stake? Which National Security Council members would you expect to have the most important input to the decision making process on this issue? Discuss whether or not the ODNI Worldwide Threat Assessment anticipated that something like this might happen. Does the National Security Strategy document suggest what the US response might be? What instruments of national power could be useful in responding to this situation? What national security organizations are/could be involved?

Arrest in Canada of the Chief Financial Officer of the Chinese technology firm, Huawei, on Dec. 1.

(Freifeld, 2018) https://globalnews.ca/news/4736894/huawei-bank-fraud-iran-sanctions/

(Global News, n.a.) https://globalnews.ca/video/4738436/could-huawei-be-compelled-to-spy-for-chinese-government

(PBS, 2018) https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-the-arrest-of-a-member-of-chinas-corporate-royalty-could-affect-trade-tensions

(Conger, 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/technology/huaw…

Russia-Ukrainian clash in the Sea of Azov on November 26, 2018

(BBC 1, 2018) https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-46351715/why-tensions-between-russia-and-ukraine-are-so-high

(BBC 2, 2018) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46345697

(BBC 3, 2018) https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-44134045/controversial-russia-crimea-bridge-opens

(Guardian 1, 2018) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/01/russia-ukraine-ships-jim-mattis-trump-administrtion

(Guardian 2, 2018) https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine

(CFR Background, 2018) https://www.cfr.org/interactives/global-conflict-tracker?marker=26#!/conflict/conflict-in-ukraine

(Rempfer, 2018) https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/11/27/heres-the-us-military-footprint-in-the-black-sea-region/?utm_source=clavis

(Vasilyeva, 2018) https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/11/26/russias-conflict-with-ukraine-an-explainer/

(Baker, 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/trump-putin-meeting-g20.html

Situation on the US-Mexico border from mid-November 2018 to present

(Karklis, et al. 2018) https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/us-mexico-border-flyover/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5711deda9676

(Copp, 2018) https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/10/29/trump-orders-5200-active-duty-troops-to-us-mexico-border/

(Caldwell, 2018) https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-troops-first-order-at-the-border-laying-razor-wire-1541509201?mod=hp_lead_pos7

(Sieff, 2018) https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/pompeo-meets-with-mexican-officials-as-a-migrant-caravan-inches-north/2018/10/19/721d0448-d31b-11e8-a4db-184311d27129_story.html?utm_term=.2ef7967c596a

(Dozier et al., 2018) https://www.thedailybeast.com/bolton-kept-dhs-in-the-dark-in-his-push-to-seal-the-border-against-the-migrant-caravan

(Bravo, et al., 2018) https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Homeland-Security-Secretary-Kirstjen-US-Mexico-Border-Nielsen-Border-Hardening-Efforts-500923121.html

(ABC News) https://abc7ny.com/politics/timeline-migrant-caravans-and-the-border-controversy/4766743/

(Lafuente & Garcia, 2018) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-caravan/tired-of-waiting-for-asylum-migrants-from-caravan-breach-us-border-idUSKBN1O30D5

(Miroff & Partlow, 2018) https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/after-inauguration-mexicos-new-government-heads-to-washington-for-migration-talks/2018/11/30/179699d4-f4cd-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html?utm_term=.d19a4d006efa

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The National Security Council (NSC) is a United States agency that informs the president on matters regarding national security and foreign policy issues through its senior cabinet officials and the national security advisors. The agency is within the executive of the United States president office having being established in 1947 by the National Security Act (Sarkesian, Williams & Cimbala, 2013). The chairman for the NSC is the president, which also comprises of other members including the vice president and secretaries of state defense. Since its inception, the NSC has functioned as an agency for briefing the president on national security and foreign matters (Sarkesian, Williams & Cimbala, 2013).

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