HOMELAND SECURITY
| Understand the difficulty of defining homeland security. | |
| Trace the development of the Department of Homeland Security. | |
| Explain the organizational structure of the Department of Homeland Security and the reorganization in 2005. | |
| Recognize the multiple organizations that play a role in homeland security. | |
| Understand the importance of state and local government homeland security missions. | |
| Outline the National Strategy for Homeland Security. | |
| Define and explain intelligence and intelligence community. | |
| Describe how to counter terrorist financing. | |
| Discuss multiple perspectives on homeland security. | |
| Examine accountability and evaluation of national strategies against terrorism. |
KEY TERMS
homeland security
Posse Comitatus Act
federalism
tenth amendment
first responders
National Strategy for Homeland Security
National Security Strategy of the United States
National Military Strategy for Combating
Weapons of Mass Destruction
U.S. Northern Command
threat-vulnerability integration
"red team" techniques
stovepiping
connecting the dots
intelligence
intelligence community
The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism
Prevention Act of 2004
Homeland Security Advisory System
data mining
Government Accountability Office
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Publication information:
Book title: Terrorism and Homeland Security: An Introduction with Applications.
Contributors: Philip P. Purpura - Author.
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann.
Place of publication: Boston.
Publication year: 2007.
Page number: 125.
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