Our Nation's National Security Strategy
Lifelong Learning | Available (Membership Required)
U.S. National Security Strategy is an overview of selected topics dealing with the numerous ways the United States protects its citizens from foreign and domestic criminals. We will cover three topics during this course.
Topic 1 focuses on the various individuals and groups that are currently engaged in active operations within the United States. These actors utilize a variety of methods to destroy and/or disrupt the ongoing security planning of the United States.
Topic 2 includes an analysis of selected topics that includes an overview of the causes of criminal behavior. Students will be encouraged to attempt an analysis of a current national security problem during the course.
Topic 3 has a focus on U.S. Counterintelligence (assigned to the FBI) and the operational needs of security intelligence collectors.
Larry Likar
Professor Lawrence Likar is a La Roche University Professor Emeritus. He is a retired, but active, researcher and writer. His first book, Eco-Warriors, Nihilistic Terrorists, and the Environment, was published by Praeger Security International.
He is working on a new book, Guardian and Peacemaker: Tactical Principles for the Criminal Justice Professional, which focuses on tactical concepts whose usage should be kept to an indispensable minimum.
Professor Likar is a former member of the U.S. Army’s Special Forces and a retired Supervisory Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He planned and organized OPERATION CLAW, the FBI raid on the infrastructure of the violent Puerto Rican terrorist organization called “Los Macheteros.”