— Volume VI No. 1: January 2010 —

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Resilience: The Grand Strategy

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February 18, 2010 07:52
This article is quite useful in the ongoing dialogue on formulating a single overarching strategy for the Department of Homeland Security DHS). For example it recognizes by implication that it is impossible for DHS to provide anywhere near 100 per cent security for the U.S. or its citizens. For another
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AUTHOR:
Philip Palin
Philip J. Palin is a research fellow with the Pace University graduate program in Management for Public Safety and Homeland Security Professionals. He is the principal author of the Catastrophe Preparation and Prevention series from McGraw-Hill. Other publications include Consequence Management (2008) and Threat, Vulnerability, Consequence, Risk (2009). Mr. Palin chaired the General Preparedness Working Group of the Obama presidential campaign’s Homeland Security Advisory Council. He is a former college president, foundation executive, and corporate chief executive officer. Mr. Palin can be contacted at ppalin@nisp.us.

ABSTRACT:
Homeland Security does not have a grand strategy. Resiliency has been suggested as an over-arching goal, but what does it really mean? In this essay, Philip Palin draws from his Long Blog, modeled on George Keenan’s Long Telegram (which defined containment as the United States’ Cold War strategy) to formulate resilience as a grand strategy for U.S. homeland security.

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SUGGESTED CITATION:
Palin, Philip. “Resilience: The Grand Strategy.” Homeland Security Affairs 6, issue 1 (January 2010)
http://www.hsaj.org/?article=6.1.2
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