National Security Online Resource Center
Encyclopedia
The National Security Online Resource Center (NSORC) is an initiative of the Collegiate Network
and private benefactors. The mission of the project is to provide college journalists with a solid grounding in national security
issues. Besides providing recent headlines and opinions, book and magazine reviews, student articles, and downloadable online lectures, NSORC offers advice about issues unique to college journalists.
Topics are divided into the three major categories of threat facing the national security of the United States
today:
NSORC regularly focuses on a feature topic in each of these three categories.
Reviews are written primarily by NSORC staff, but outside reviews can be submitted through the NSORC website.
Collegiate Network
The Collegiate Network is a non-profit, non-partisan tax-exempt 501 organization that provides financial and technical assistance to student editors and writers of almost 100 independent, conservative and libertarian publications at leading colleges and universities around the country. The project...
and private benefactors. The mission of the project is to provide college journalists with a solid grounding in national security
National security
National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic, diplomacy, power projection and political power. The concept developed mostly in the United States of America after World War II...
issues. Besides providing recent headlines and opinions, book and magazine reviews, student articles, and downloadable online lectures, NSORC offers advice about issues unique to college journalists.
Information for College Journalists
Advice offered by college students on the issues unique to college journalists covering issues of national security.Topics
The front page of NSORC shows the most recent additions to each feature, but the website is also divided by topic.Topics are divided into the three major categories of threat facing the national security of the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
today:
- Global Terrorism (e.g. the Global War on TerrorismWar on TerrorismThe War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as non-NATO countries...
) - Rogue States (e.g. North KoreaNorth KoreaThe Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...
) - Emerging Powers (e.g. ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
).
NSORC regularly focuses on a feature topic in each of these three categories.
Student Articles
NSORC features real articles from college newspapers and magazines. Articles can be submitted through the NSORC website.Reviews
- Books
- Magazines and Journals
- Official Documents and Reports
Reviews are written primarily by NSORC staff, but outside reviews can be submitted through the NSORC website.
Recent Opinions
Read what the pundits, scholars, and experts think about the popular issues of the day.Current Advisory Board
- Lt. General Josiah Bunting IIIJosiah Bunting IIIJosiah Bunting III is an American educator. He has been a military officer, college president, and an author and speaker on education and Western culture.-Biography:...
(Ret.)- Chairman, National Civic Literacy Board
- President, Harry Frank Guggenheim FoundationHarry Frank Guggenheim FoundationThe Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation was established by Harry Guggenheim to support research on violence, aggression, and dominance.The foundation writes: "He was convinced that solid, thoughtful, scholarly and scientific research, experimentation, and analysis would in the end accomplish more...
- Superintendent Emeritus, Virginia Military InstituteVirginia Military InstituteThe Virginia Military Institute , located in Lexington, Virginia, is the oldest state-supported military college and one of six senior military colleges in the United States. Unlike any other military college in the United States—and in keeping with its founding principles—all VMI students are...
- Mr. Oldřich Černý
- Executive Director, Prague Security Studies InstitutePrague Security Studies InstituteThe Prague Security Studies Institute is a non-profit, non-governmental organization established in early 2002 to advance the building of a just, secure, democratic, free-market society in the Czech Republic and other post-communist states. Its co-founder Roger W. Robinson, Jr. is a former...
- Executive Director, Prague Security Studies Institute
- Dr. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
- President, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis