ABSTRACT
This chapter explores four of the policy areas that extend ideas of security in distinctly different ways: border security, natural resources security, environmental security, and cyber security. A supply-side approach also looks at alternative sources of energy, from wind power to thermal energy to “clean” coal to nuclear power, as strategic options. All are aimed at reducing dependency on foreign oil and the baggage such dependency carries; all of them are also nontraditional approaches to a national security problem. In some important ways, the security of national borders is the oldest and most fundamental of all national security issues. Protecting and defending national, sovereign territory is, arguably, the most important and vital priority and task of government. The sea borders of the United States are an even more daunting physical problem. Two measures are used to describe the dimensions: coastline and shoreline. There is a second possible solution to the problem: shale technology.
