The May 2023 Issue of Homeland Security Affairs features a policy essay that warns of conflicts between Emergency Management and Homeland Defense missions in the event of a major war and a research article that assesses how DHS has incorporated climate change into its mission portfolio. Read more.
What is a homeland security future worth creating? After enough discussion, the homeland security community could probably agree on the broad outlines of a desirable future.
By Christopher Bellavita
The Beslan hostage crisis in September 2004 deeply impacted the Russian psyche. However, closer examination of the incident indicates that a number of mistakes were made in possibly preventing, and certainly in responding to, the crisis.
By Peter Forster
Whether one attempts to define “homeland security” as a discipline, activity, programmatic approach, or a national security objective, the necessity for learning what it entails is a new endeavor.
By Glen Woodbury
Since the events of September 11, 2001 all levels and branches of government have been focused on how best to assess national preparedness so that appropriate resource decisions can be made to enhance the nation’s ability to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from major catastrophic events.
By Samuel Clovis Jr.
One national priority under the National Preparedness Goal is collaborative geographic regional approaches. This article identifies several basic practices intended to facilitate forming and sustaining a high-performance partnership that should be useful for these collaborative approaches.
By Sharon Caudle
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, many, including the president, have called for serious public discussion over whether the U.S. military should take over what has been historically a civilian governmental function of catastrophic incident response.
By Kathleen Gereski
During disasters, large numbers of people with no pre-planned role arrive at the scene and other areas of response activity to offer assistance.
By Lauren Fernandez, Joseph Barbera, and Johan Van Dorp
In labeling its post-9/11 efforts the “war” on terror, the United States invoked a war metaphor that ties its success or failure to the doctrinal rules of war.
By Donald Reed
The Strategy for Homeland Security stresses the need for a robust public health component to respond to and recover from a range of emergencies. However, dire problems with the current public health manpower infrastructure have been reported for more than fifteen years and continue to be a problem.
By Anke Richter and Denise Santiago
There is little political will to substantially alter the organizational and programmatic system that characterizes U.S. homeland security. The system we have is the one we have to work with, at least until something significant happens: another attack, a catastrophic natural disaster, a national public health emergency, or a new political administration.
By Christopher Bellavita
