The US has one, while Dutch minister's are going to sign off on theirs soon, and the French are seriously thinking about creating one. Not content with a having one already, the Singapore national coordination secreteriat has just produced a glossy 'Diary of Resolve' outlining all their work securing the country in the past 1826 days (that's since 9/11 to you and me).

An emerging trend of the post Cold War world is for government's to produce (public or private) national security strategies. Except the UK, even though our own security sector reform teams operating in developing countires around the world, advise governmnet's: 

An essential element of SSR to address is a National Security Strategy, required to provide direction and strategic objectives to each of the security portfolios.

The penny might have dropped - rumours abound that departments are beginning to think about this more seriously... watch this space.

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