Žmogus, visuomenė, valstybė

Abstract

The basic purpose of national security of the Republic of Lithuania is to ensure the survival of the nation and its development. An essential point of departure of this article is the definition of national security. Many diverse definitions of the term exist. Many conceptions emphasized the ideas of the preservation of security primarily in military terms. In our view, national security had been regarded mainly as a military problem for too long a time. For many years the main goal of national security policy had been to protect the nation only from military threats. Threats to national security can arise both externally and internally, although our discussion must be limited mostly to the consideration of internal threats. The concept of national security contains numerous objective and subjective elements and conditions. Including the idea of national survival or self-preservation, our definition also emphasizes the necessity to relate security to certain non-military conditions. National security implies the creation and preservation of the conditions, in which each citizen can be a healthy, strong, learned, creative, responsible person. We believe that today the chief danger to national security lies in the conditions of underdevelopment. The goals of the nation, beyond its continued survival, are: the progress, improvement, enrichment or enhancement of life in all its important spheres. [...].