Securing the Homeland

Since the attacks of 2001, America continues to wrestle with how best to confront the threat of terrorism within the homeland. New strategies and organizations were developed to enhance this domestic mission of national security -- notably and historically, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Response Plan. Despite these changes, the nation’s conceptual and operational approach lacks an embrace of a wartime mission which limits both efficient and effective levels of security. Changing the vector of America’s homeland security trajectory is critical to avoid lost opportunity and increased vulnerability to external and internal threats. While the objective of homeland security is clear, the roadmap is not. Fundamentally the problem lies with ambiguous language in strategies and plans, and over-reliance on federal agency coordination as the basis of the approach. Hurricane Katrina exposed national plans as largely ignoring principles that have provided framing issues in the development of strategy for centuries.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.