Third, the NSS helps to generate citizens’ cooperation and participation. public awareness and create a common There is nothing that lures investors more understanding and ownership of issues than stability, and there is nothing that affecting the country’s security. Through scares them more than instability. this document the government communicates the national vision and how such a vision is to be achieved. Communicating these issues effectively to target audiences is crucial for securing the kind of consensus, ownership and support the government needs to ensure the success of the strategy. The government needs to communicate the NSS to policymakers in order to secure both political and resource backing for the leadership’s security agenda. Similarly, it is important to communicate the NSS to the general public in order to win the Fourth, the NSS is about the ends, ways and means. The resource aspect is always a contentious and yet unavoidable issue. One cannot have a strategy without touching on the resource aspect because the strategy will have to be implemented, and if it is going to be implemented, one needs to allocate resources and utilize these resources in the most cost-effective way. Avoiding waste should be a key guiding principle. Having a document that instructs NSS implementors on how to efficiently utilize resources is absolutely critical. EFFECTIVE USE OF THE INSTRUMENTS OF NATIONAL POWER The efficacy of our national fulfill the national security vision of the security strategy is dependent on our Philippines through the combined and capacity – capability, ability and will - to coordinated use of all the resources and enforce it. The NSS serves as a catalyst to instruments of national power – political [26]