The Role of Geography in National Security

Today the new geography is that part of science that is actively involved in the security - construction development plans, and somehow found its position in the security issues.Understanding the relationship between humans and the environment is considered as an important part of humans’ threats against them; in this context human encounter with his surroundings in terms of security issue is a considerable proportion of it. Today, the geographical component must be considered in two levels of human communities with a view to creating a new security.Each of these factors alone could be accounted when it is defined in terms security put in the path, would get the benefit of creating the new security issues. The methodology of this study is of a descriptive-analytic type which has been released after the study and descriptive investigation of the condition. The data collection process is of a free library study type. The results suggest that the geography and security are two distinct, and at the same time, complementary components, i.e., security geography and geography security. One of them has an internal and nature approach and the other external and epistemological approach. The national security is the capacity of governments to maintain an independent identity and functional integrity. So, geography emphasizes on the applied ways in the arena of security research.