TERRORISM COUNTER-TERRORISM AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Counter-terrorism is popular as antiterrorism and incorporates techniques, practices, strategies, and tactics that militaries, governments, corporations and police departments adop Continue Reading...
terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 as well as several previous acts of domestic and international terrorism sparked responses from nearly every civic agency in the United States. Each and every agency across the nation was called to action bot Continue Reading...
CURRENT PROBLEMS Governmental officials knew before the September 11 attacks that we were not fully prepared to either deal with a major terrorist attack or to put effective counterterrorism strategies in place (Haynes, 2004). Experts now realize Continue Reading...
Domestic Terrorism Incident With the sale of the mortgage business in the plan within the ABC Inc., there are a good number of people who will be affected and lose their jobs. Smith is one of the employees noted to have a history of violent behavior Continue Reading...
Terrorism in recent years has hit an all-time high. Affecting millions of people, radical groups and organizations see terrorism as a favored tactic or approach for bringing to fruition their extreme ideological agendas both domestically and internat Continue Reading...
Mass Casuality Decontamination Mass Causality Decontamination Throughout the past era, worries about possible terrorist acts concerning weapons of mass destruction (WMD) directed Congress and the President to obtain a complete counteract terrorism Continue Reading...
Norfolk Virginia is a medium sized city, and like many other local communities, has had to adapt to the new reality that the events of September 11, 2001 have forced the nation to accept. In the wake of the attacks a federal Commission was charged wi Continue Reading...
psychological process that leads to terrorism. The author achieves this through using a metaphor that narrows down a staircase that leads to the act of terrorism at the top of a building. This staircase usually leads to higher and higher floors, one Continue Reading...
Warfare & Terrorism The proliferation of cyberattacks -- aptly referred to as cyberterrorism -- carried out by criminal miscreants with grudges, shadowy techies with political motives, and other anti-social individuals, represent the new digital Continue Reading...
Terrorism Affects the International Tourism Industry There is an undeniable relationship between terrorism and tourism. This is because of the industry power tourist sites are attractive avenues for terrorists to cause unprecedented magnitudes of e Continue Reading...
Annotated Bibliography Agbiboa, D.E. (2013a). Peace at Daggers Drawn? Boko Haram and the State of Emergency in Nigeria. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 37(1): 41-67. One of the leading analysts on Boko Haram here provides a detailed overview of t Continue Reading...
There were incidences of the army having supplies but no requests came in for the supplies from FEMA which was supposed to be initiating that. The lack of the CIA activation also meant there was no unified command on the ground hence the delay of t Continue Reading...
Terrorism, Insider Threats and Homeland Security Although terrorism, insider threats and homeland security are not new concepts, they have all assumed new important and relevance in an increasingly hostile and dangerous world. In response, the U.S. g Continue Reading...
Abstract Violence against women is often perpetrated by an intimate male partner, a husband or a family member living in the same house as the victim. According to the World Report on Violence and Health, intimate partners in abusive relationships ac Continue Reading...
(White House, 2003) II. The NATIONAL STRATEGY for SECURE CYBERSPACE The National Strategy for Secure Cyberspace strategic plan states that its strategic objectives are "consistent with the National Strategy for Homeland Security' and that those ob Continue Reading...
Local, State and Federal Partnership: Terrorism National Response Framework (NRF) National Response Framework is a document that guides and presents an integrated national rejoinder to emergencies and disasters stipulating how all hazardous respons Continue Reading...
HLS-355: CRITICAL THINKING FOR HOMELAND SECURITY Final Project The fight against Hurricane Katrina in a political environment set on fighting terrorism Improving security can be a particularly challenging mission and this makes a critical thinking Continue Reading...
The fact that industrial control systems may be vulnerable to infiltration by other citizens, or international parties puts laws pertaining to intersection of systems transmission at the forefront of priorities for us all. At present, telecommunica Continue Reading...
Therefore the consequences of such restrictions and regulations have further complicated the case, the research activities have been either shunned or go unreported to avoid any confrontation with the investigation agencies, 'the climate of fear cre Continue Reading...
Department of Education: The Education Authority provided $5 million for Rehabilitation Services Administration of those individuals who suffered from physical or mental disabilities as a result of collapse of WTC. The department also provided fun Continue Reading...
OMAHA p Executive briefing on current emerging issues in emergency management to brief a local executive Executive briefing of emerging issues in emergency management: Capabilities, vulnerabilities, and needs for Omaha, Nebraska Omaha, Nebraska i Continue Reading...
To a greater degree than at any point in history, individuals and small groups, from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) on the one hand to criminal networks and terrorist organizations on the other, have the ability to engage the world with far-re Continue Reading...
Soft and hard targets and defined and discussed as well as the need for population defense and the idea that with a coordinated, comprehensive response plan and team implementation, the disaster related damage can be minimized. This chapter is devot Continue Reading...
To an extent, the idea of Cold War nation building has been in evidence in attempts to instill democracy in fronts such as Afghanistan and Iraq. But as a new president seeks to undo the damage of previous security policy conditions, it is apparent t Continue Reading...
This springs from the inherent flaw to the logical and practical underpinnings of the 2001 bill. Its twofold set of assumptions-that safety can only be preserved through the sacrifice of personal liberties and that terrorism is the product of bureau Continue Reading...
The 9/11 terror attacks is an act of terrorism that has had significant impacts on modern law enforcement and military operations. Etter (2015) contends that the 9/11 attack was a very traumatic event for the entire United States of America. This is Continue Reading...
large terrorist WMD attack might be conducted. I have also indicated the most probable type of materials that could be used and the potential targets and probable forms of attack. It is rather difficult for the policymakers to weigh up the likeliho Continue Reading...
Homeland Security Strategies The United Sates Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Strategic Plan outlines the Department's vision for homeland security as outlined in the Department's Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR). The plan is a unif Continue Reading...
Terror Recommendations # 16 The Department of Homeland Security, properly supported by the Congress, should complete, as quickly as possible, a biometric entry-exit screening system, including a single system for speeding qualified travelers. It sho Continue Reading...
After meeting Ms. Aida Ortiz, CMA's Human Relations Specialist, she presented a brief overview of the office and explained the particular responsibilities my internship would encompass during the two-week period. The first "order" was to have my por Continue Reading...
Leadership Exercise: Boston Marathon Bombings Analysis On April 15, 2013, Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev two Kyrgyz-American brothers, detonated two homemade bombs at the annual running of the Boston Marathon, killing three people Continue Reading...
United States' Strategy for Dealing with a Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear Non-State Actor Threat One of the major potential threats that has emerged in recent years is a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) threat fro Continue Reading...
Then Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen said the program was "specifically designed so that the people we train become trainers themselves. This approach will greatly magnify our efforts to produce a core of qualified first responders across the Continue Reading...
National Incident Management System: NIMS has been designed with the sole purpose of integrating emergency practices on all levels of government. These practices include mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery and NIMS provides the single Continue Reading...
26 Yet public health continued to mean, even more than in the Clinton administration, a technological approach to national defense. In the Bush administration, pharmaceutical protection became the centerpiece of biodefense policy. On December 13, 200 Continue Reading...
Specifically, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is one of the premier law enforcement organizations in the world. However, it was conceived, designed, and structured more for the purpose of investigating past crimes and apprehending and pro Continue Reading...
.." therefore the ADF "will work from a 'whole of government' approach and often in collation with other countries and militaries to provide the outcomes that are needed to meet modern security challenges." (Cosgrove, 2005; p. 3) Cosgrove relates tha Continue Reading...
This is as long as such as move would not in any way compromises the safety as well as promptness of a thorough investigation.The verbal as well as written document shall in this case be restricted to the persons responsible for the receiving, respo Continue Reading...
