USA Today
March 19, 2008
LONDON — Prime Minister Gordon Brown laid out Wednesday what he called Britain’s first national security strategy since the Cold War to combat terror, military and even climactic threats that have “changed out of all recognition.”
The strategy, Brown said, integrates security and emergency-response measures at home with military and diplomatic efforts overseas to better battle terrorism, war, poverty, disease and climate change that put Britons’ safety at risk.
“New threats demand new approaches,” Brown told the House of Commons in a noon-hour speech outlining the strategy. “A radically updated and much more coordinated response is now required.”
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As part of it, Brown said the government would make public its registry of risks to the country so that Britons knew the dangers they faced and be better enlisted to fight them.
“Our new approach to security also means … building and strengthening local capacity to respond effectively in a range of circumstances from floods to possible terrorism incidents,” he said. “Not the old Cold War idea of civil defense but a new form of civil protection that combines expert preparedness for potential emergencies with greater local engagement of individuals and families themselves.”
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