Terrorism and Homeland Security: Thinking Strategically About PolicyPaul Viotti, Michael Opheim, Nicholas Bowen Despite the fact that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been active since November of 2002, the American homeland is still not secure from terrorist attack. What passes as DHS strategy is often just a list of objectives with vague references to the garnering of national resources, and the marshalling of support from other nations. Drawi |
Contents
Chapter 1 Toward a Comprehensive Strategy for Terrorism and Homeland Security | 3 |
An Integrated Grand Strategy | 19 |
Homeland Security and the Cold War Legacy of Defenselessness | 33 |
Chapter 4 Terrorism and Deterrence by Denial | 53 |
Chapter 5 The Importance of Multinational and Transnational Cooperation Strategies for Homeland Security | 69 |
Terrorism Homeland Security and Weapons of Mass Destruction WMD | 99 |
New Threads Revised Responses | 101 |
Prevention and Response | 119 |
Chapter 10 Democracy Civil Society and the DamageLimitation Component of Strategy | 191 |
Chapter 11 Transportation as a Component of Homeland Security Strategy | 207 |
Chapter 12 Redefining US Energy Security in the TwentyFirst Century | 227 |
Terrorism and Securing the Homeland | 253 |
The National Strategy for Homeland Security | 263 |
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Glossary | 291 |
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Strategy and the Safeguarding of Society and Its Infrastructure From Terrorism and Other Threats | 145 |
Biological Terrorism Pandemics and Other Forgotten Catastrophic Disaster Threats | 147 |
A Local Government Perspective | 171 |
Back cover | 327 |
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