ABSTRACT
Before the Second World War, especially in the English-speaking countries,
security was almost exclusively the province of soldiers. National security was
a term primarily associated with possible or probable military threats from
other nation-states concerning strategic access or denial of raw materials,
markets, lines of communication, choke points or the national territory. As a
corollary, strategy was generally limited in its application to the use of
military means to achieve the objectives (ends) of national security policy.
