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Homeland Security: A Compendium of Public and Private Organizations' Policy Recommendations
by John V. Parachini, Lynn E. Davis, Timothy Liston. 57 pgs.

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Presents recent recommendations from various commissions and think tanks regarding U.S. homeland security policy.

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Preface

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1: Introduction

2: Strategy for Homeland Security

3: Substantive Policy Initiatives

4: Conclusions

A. Organizations' Major Recommendations

B: Commission Members

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Keeping Us Safe: Secret Intelligence and Homeland Security
by Arthur S. Hulnick. 240 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Preface

List of Acronyms and Initialisms

1: What Went Wrong

2: Understanding the Enemy

3: The Threat of Espionage

4: The Realities of Intelligence Collection

5: Intelligence Analysis for Homeland Security

6: Cops and Spies

7: Should We Have an Mi-5?

8: Special Operations

9: Understanding the Department of Homeland Security

10: First Responders

11: Restructuring Intelligence

12: Liberty and Security

Notes

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Index
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Homeland Security: A Challenging Environment: The Meaning of Homeland Security, Its Intent, and the Key Issues Officials Will Encounter in Addressing Its Policy and Management Challenges, in The Public Manager
by Sharon Caudle. 4 pgs.

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The Other Homeland Security Threat: Bureaucratic Haggling: As Homeland Security and Intelligence Agencies Attempt Monumental Change, Can Management Theory Offer Any New Approaches?, in The Public Manager
by Kenneth D. Mitchell. 4 pgs.

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Advisors, Czars and Councils: Organizing for Homeland Security, in The National Interest
by Ivo H. Daalder, I. M. Destler. 13 pgs.

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The Role of the Office of Homeland Security in the Federal Budget Process: Recommendations for Effective Long-Term Engagement
by Victoria A. Greenfield. 37 pgs.

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The author reviews how the newly created Office of Homeland Security (OHS) can engage effectively in the federal budget process. The report also yields a detailed road map for OHS's budgetary role, highlighting the need to establish policy priorities and objectives early and set up a tightly coordinated interagency process.

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1: Introduction

2: Key Relationships and Points of Leverage

3: Relationships, Process, and Substance Intertwine

4: Conclusions

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Mapping the Risks: Assessing Homeland Security Implications of Publicly Available Geospatial Information
by John C. Baker, David R. Frelinger, Alexander C. Hou, Beth E. Lachman, David Orletsky, Kevin M. O'Connell, Michael S. Tseng, Charles Yost. 195 pgs.

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Assesses the homeland security implications of publicly available geospatial data and information.

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Sponsor Guidance

The Rand Corporation Quailty Assurance Process

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Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: What Are the Attackers' Key Information Needs?

Chapter Three: What Publicly Available Geospatial Information is Significant to Potoitial Attakers' Needs?

Chapter Four: An Analytical Framework for Assessing the Homeland Security Implictions of Publicly Accessible Geospatial Information

Chapter Five: Key Findings and Recommdations

Appendix A: Feded Agencies Examined

Appendix B: Federal Geospatial Data Sources Identified

Appendix C: Detailed Examples of Geospatial Information Analyses

Appendix D: Overview of Critical U.S. Sites: Critical Infrastructure and Other Key Homeland Loctions

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Organizing for Homeland Security, in Presidential Studies Quarterly
by Harold C. Relyea. 23 pgs.

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Protecting the Homeland: Insights from Army Wargames
by Richard Brennan. 46 pgs.

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A survey of insights gained from wargames conducted by the U.S. Army's Training and Doctrine Command, as they related to current studies and analyses of homeland security

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Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: History of Homeland Security in Army Wargaming

Chapter Three: Insights and Issues

Chapter Four: Conclusions on Homeland Security Issues

Chapter Five: Integrating Homeland Security into the Army Transformation Games

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The Law: Homeland Security: The Concept and the Presidential Coordination Office-First Assessment, in Presidential Studies Quarterly
by Harold C. Relyea. 15 pgs.

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Municipal Emergency Preparedness: The Local Face of Homeland Security, in The Public Manager
by Barbara L. Neuny. 5 pgs.

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The Myth of Homeland Security
by Marcus J. Ranum. 246 pgs.

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About the Author

It's Another Code Orange Day

1: Homeland Security:A Convenient Invention

2: A Multitude of Myths

3: The Politics of Homeland Security

4: The Homeland Security Shuffle

5: Running for the Border

6: Airline Insecurity

7: Irresistible Force versus Inscrutable Object

8: The Media

9: The Electronic Pearl Harbor

10: It, American Style

11: The Business of Computer Security

12: The Price Tag of Fear

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