Rethinking US National Security Policy in the 21 ST Century and its Impact on International Educational Policy Decision
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2023
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GOUDJIL Kahina
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This thesis aims to study the progressive development of U.S. National security since 1940, and
the prominent threat that comprises its national security policy in the twenty-first century. This
work is devoted to diagnosing the U.S. national security development, new tactics and policies,
the primary initiatives employed to handle the problem of a new emerging threat of
cybersecurity, and its consequences on American national policy. The type of this research is an
Exploratory Descriptive Qualitative research EDQ, it examines the advent of a new field of
Cyber security as the rising danger to national and international security. It investigates the
relationship between agencies and the educational system to mitigate the threat. To analyze and
evaluate education's role in creating a cybersecurity workforce to overcome U.S. national
security threats, a comprehensive statistical analysis was conducted to determine the
effectiveness of higher education in addressing the shortage of skilled workers in cybersecurity,
and the extent to which it has reduced U.S. vulnerabilities to cybercrimes. The work will
demonstrate if expanding cybersecurity in higher education has contributed to developing a
pipeline of human cybersecurity capital. Despite the efforts that programs in higher education
have made, the study’s findings show that the United States is still susceptible and vulnerable to
cybercrime. Higher education has helped offset the problem of labor shortage, but it has not been
enough to eradicate or diminish the country’s cyber risks. As the results illustrate, higher
education played and still plays a crucial role in bridging the skills gap in the cybersecurity
sector, but it could not address the country’s cyber risks and diminish the country’s vulnerability
to cyberattacks.