This past summer, the nation lost one of its most experienced and respected emergency management and homeland security leaders, Lacy Suiter. For more than forty years, Lacy Suiter helped shape the nation’s emergency management system and in recent years guided its fledgling homeland security programs.
By David O’Keeffe
Lacy Suiter passed away on August 8, 2006. With his passing, the emergency management community lost one of its greatest mentors. In this article, first published in the Congressional Quarterly, reporter Eileen Sullivan recaps Suiter’s career and offers testimonials from his colleagues and friends.
By Eileen Sullivan
Death of Lacy Suiter Leaves Large Void in Emergency Management Community →
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
Changing Homeland Security: Shape Patterns, Not Programs →
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
Beslan: Counter-terrorism Incident Command: Lessons Learned →
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
Basic Practices Aiding High-Performance Homeland Security Regional Partnerships →
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
The Department of Defense as Lead Federal Agency →
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
Strategies for Managing Volunteers during Incident Response: A Systems Approach →
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
Why Strategy Matters in the War on Terror →
