Mission Impossible? The Challenge of Implementing an Integrated Homeland Security Strategy
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Kiki Caruson
Managing the homeland security mission is a critical, but complicated task. Due to the ever-changing nature of terrorist threats, the homeland security mission will remain one of the country’s most difficult endeavors. The challenges to the successful implementation and integration of homeland security goals are considerable. This article addresses three of those challenges and analyzes how to improve the quality of homeland security at the federal, state, and local levels. The three challenges explored here include: The challenge of improving coordination and communication between agencies responsible for collecting, evaluation, and disseminating intelligence information; the challenge of structuring a workforce capable of carrying out the homeland security function; and the challenge of achieving preparedness at the state and local levels and integration of federal, state, and local homeland security efforts.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Research Article
- Thinking the Inevitable: Suicide Attacks in America and the Design of Effective Public Safety Policies
- Risks of Terrorism to Information Technology and to Critical Interdependent Infrastructures
- Why Do Public Health Practitioners Hesitate?
- Volunteerism, Disasters and Homeland Security: The AmeriCorps*National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) and Community Preparedness
- Prudence or Panic? Preparedness Exercises, Counterterror Mobilization, and Media Coverage - Dark Winter, TOPOFF 1 and 2.
- Communication/News
- Tips and Trends for Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Asia Stages a Dismal Response to Bird Flu Virus: An Emergency Management Diagnosis
- Mission Impossible? The Challenge of Implementing an Integrated Homeland Security Strategy
- Digital Dental Radiography
- Book Review
- Emergency Response and Emergency Management Law: Cases and Materials
- Preventing Earthquake Disasters - The Grand Challenge in Earthquake Engineering - A Research Agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
- Terrorism and Disaster Management: Preparing Healthcare Leaders for the New Reality
- System Under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics
