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terrorist actions among others. When an emerging crisis situation emerges that is man-made, should have a swift and clear answer by the international community when a true security threat is seen to emerge. That should be our strategic planning and our strategic goal; To protect our society and to serve our nations. A new strategic framework is been consolidated. It seeks strategic and security authority, legal, political and alliance of states, which will practically be applied and deployed, through action planning and intelligence methodological approaches; through technology use and pure analysis and knowledge sharing. The international community, requires, deployability risk assessments and risk factor analysis. It requires pure strategic innovation, security assessments and ability to think in multi-levels and in multiple disciplines. It requests agility, strategic operational preparedness and more than this ability to provide practical efficacy success. Strategists are therefore called upon. We need to offer true, tangible and robust strategic knowledge but more importantly practical solutions. Strategists should therefore get together. We should explore social and local security. We should seek practical operational and tactical resolutions. We should be able to cooperate with multi-levels of government decision-making. We should seek a more proactive role of national and homeland security levels, intelligence gathering of true accurate operational information. Strategist character should include cross-national and transnational to international strategic sharing of information and knowledge but also proposals. Proposals should be take into serious consideration, with operational effectiveness through strategic management of deployability of forces and operational preparedness that can be assumed as successful when properly evaluated, planned and applied. Strategists should assess possible challenges and damage, regional and international. They should think in multi-levels and multiple dimensions; To offer a true analysis of the global emergence of threats and how to counter them in real-time action plans. Dr Marios Panagiotis Efthymiopoulos is Assistant Professor and Program coordinator of the MA in Strategy and Security at the American University in the Emirates, located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He is the CEO and Founder of the think tank Strategy International, and Member of the Geostrategic Council attached to the President of Cyprus more information: Email: [email protected] Www.efthymiopoulos.gr Geopolitics.com.gr all rights reserved 2015 Page 84