Three questions for those thinking about reframing our concept of national security in the digital era:

Whose security?

Security against what?

What do you mean by 'security'?

To elaborate, questions of national security can hardly be separated from political questions of power, representation, and liberty. As @bethwindisch aptly points out, sometimes more security for some means less security for others. This country must reckon w/ its contradictions.

When thinking about it this morning, I was reminded of other American ideas, like King's Dream, Roosevelt's Four Freedoms, Wilson's Fourteen Points, Paine's Rights of Man. All these and other voices must be heard as we think about what freedom and security should mean today.

Old assumptions and institutions are crumbling right in front of us, and we, or people soon after us, will have the opportunity - the necessity - to invent new ones.

Those new ones must begin with the undeniable fact that America is a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-faith conglomerate, and that is also undeniably a strength - it is a feature, not a bug.

These aren't original thoughts. I'm not a political theorist, I just read a lot. As @AN_Goldstein points out, feminist authors have been asking these questions for decades. It's time we started listening more intently, and incorporating their (and others') ideas.