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...
FEMA-DHS Should FEMA remain a part of the DHS The issue that will be addressed in this thesis is whether the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) should remain a part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Buried among the legislation Continue Reading...
Regarding Border Security, "the Department of Homeland Security prevents and investigates illegal movements across our borders, including the smuggling of people, drugs, cash, and weapons" (DHS.gov. Border Security. 2012. PP. 1). Customs, Coast Gua Continue Reading...
The other major component of the Department of Homeland Security that doesn't belong is FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. This is the only component of the Department that is not involved in preventing security threats that human in nat Continue Reading...
Their casualties go uncounted, their actions largely unmonitored and their crimes unpunished." Scahill relates that four years into the Iraq occupation "there is no effective system of oversight or accountability governing contractors and their oper Continue Reading...
Thus, the progress was, in fact, achieved through the intergovernmental ability of those commanding our country to have their requests travel both ways, and the DHS thus enabled Washington to reach the average policeman. Early criticisms of the DHS Continue Reading...
58, 59). These insights are equally applicable to forecasting how global events will potentially impact the United States and its trading partners. The same techniques used for anticipating terrorism threats can use used for anticipating conditions Continue Reading...
However, a variety of weaknesses still continue the most notable would include: a decentralized system, no standardized protocol for evaluating container packages and a lack of training. This is significant, because it highlights an obvious weakness Continue Reading...
S. To cope with any disaster or unforeseeable eventual attack on the critical infrastructure, to avoid the 9/11 mayhem and lack of organization. Respond; where disaster responsiveness and action at the time of the attack and shortly after is looked Continue Reading...
The most appropriate use of state and local law enforcement counter-terrorism resources (beyond soft target protection and small-scale tactical response) is in a role far less glamorous than preventing the large scale unconventional attacks that pr Continue Reading...
Integrated agreements will assist in targeting the maximum federal funding at the greatest risk counties, cities and states where through the addition of more funds, security of citizens will be increased (U.S. Congress 2010). U.S. Department of Hom Continue Reading...
If the country is safe, then that is all that matters to the department. If any group was to be considered as a form of competition, drug traffickers and terrorists may be the closes groups to fall into that category. In the economic arena, the Dep 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...
At a minimum, the emergency plan should outline the respective risks capable of being anticipated along with appropriate procedures for implementing necessary response procedures and resource allocation. The emergency plan must include procedures fo Continue Reading...
National Response Framework Mission Area The National Response Framework refers to a guide developed to provide directions on the ways in which the state response to different types of disasters and emergencies. The guide bases its principles on co Continue Reading...
Traffic Analysis/Homeland Security One of the biggest challenges currently faced by the Department of Homeland Security is guaranteeing cybersecurity. Each and every day some type of cyber crime occurs. Such crimes have the potential to affect the c Continue Reading...
World Religion in Homeland Security The relation between national security and religion has existed for quite some time now with a clear manifestation on how religious persecution and national security threats correlate. According to Inboden (2012), Continue Reading...
Home Security Reforming Immigration Reform Homeland Security Reforming Immigration Reform In current years illegal immigration has turned out to be a topic that has brought up some significant political issues in the United States. A lot of the deb Continue Reading...
Introduction The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) arose from the ashes of the Twin Towers on 9/11 as the federal government’s response to the threat of terror. That threat has been represented in a number of incarnations: the Saudi hijacke Continue Reading...
Private Security Trends and Movements Private security plays such a significant role in the efforts of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that the DHS published in 2010 a Private Sector Resources Catalog that “centralizes access to all D Continue Reading...
Transportation Security and Intrusiveness of Security Screenings America's land, seaways, and air transportation systems are structured in such a manner that enhances efficiency and enables easy access, the two features that also at the same time ma Continue Reading...
Abstract The Department of Homeland Security was created in 2002 as a response to September 11. The goal of the creation of the new department was to centralize all decision-making authority under the rubric of homeland security, ensuring a common m Continue Reading...
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many observers posited that 'things will never be the same' and this prediction has been borne out with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security which has since been tasked with coordi Continue Reading...
Is the System Under Stress? Book Review of Kettls Homeland Security and American PoliticsIntroductionThis review covers Kettls (2007) System Under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics, published by CQ Press in Washington, D.C. (pp. 151). T Continue Reading...
Section I: Introduction The formation of the Department of Homeland Security after September 11 was an organizational and administrative response to the failure of the intelligence community to mitigate the attack. Although it predated the 9/11 Comm Continue Reading...
Ethical Considerations for the Use of Technology to Meet Selected Homeland Security Objectives Introduction The Digital Age has transformed the way the world works for better or worse. Technology exists to bring down nations’ infrastructures wi Continue Reading...
S. Customs and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services were combined to form U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Overall, DHS incorporates 22 government agencies. The major agencies of DHS are the TSA, Customs and Border Protection, Citizensh Continue Reading...
Global Influence and the Challenges Facing Leaders in Homeland Security Annotated Bibliography Berger, L. (2014). Foreign policies or culture. Journal of Peace Research, 51(6): 782-796. This study uses survey method to obtain data of the world’ Continue Reading...
Ability of USA to Counter terror DHS and enhancement of Special Operations Forces structure Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 proscribed the use of military in civilian law enforcement. Currently, there are terrorists who are born and bread within the Un Continue Reading...
The Court reversed the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and remanded the case for dismissal with no prejudice; it overruled the Court of Appeals verdict and prepared the dismissal of the case, allowing Padilla to Continue Reading...
Terrorism/Homeland Security Terrorism / Homeland security Terrorism is a global phenomenon that needs urgent research to address its effects on people. Scholars on terrorism argue that terrorism is a disputed term. These scholars contend that those Continue Reading...
The town has suffered from a series of grenade attacks which have left many Kenyans citizens injured. The increasing incidents of explosive material in the nation from Ukraine were netted by the Kenyan police. Kenya with the help of American intelli Continue Reading...
Constitution/Homeland Security FISA FISA -- The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act dictates the way the United States government carries out communication surveillance (e.g., telefaxes, emails, telephone calls, Internet websites, etc.) that pass Continue Reading...
Privacy, Security, Whistleblowing [Surveillance is a necessary evil to prevent terrorist attacks from happening.]A [For example, the secret "PRISM" effort saved New York City's subways from a 2009 terrorist plot led by a young Afghan-American, Najib Continue Reading...
Managing Homeland Security Risk and vulnerability There are two general types of disasters which occur, that of disasters which occur regularly with moderately severe consequences such as flooding and less common but far more horrific events, such Continue Reading...
Strategies to improve collaboration and cooperation between the Homeland Security agencies The department of homeland security (DHS) controls the territorial, local, state, tribal, and federal government resources (DHS, 2018). The DHS coordinates var Continue Reading...
National borders are far from arbitrary; they are important demarcations between one sovereign state and another. The foundation of national sovereignty depends on each nation protecting its own border, to achieve its own homeland security goals. In Continue Reading...
Critical Thinking for Homeland Security The objective of the article is to question the credibility of the decision adopting by the Bush's administration on North Korea due to claims that it (North Korea) was constructing a Uranium plant. Based on t Continue Reading...
