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
This article analyses the National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism issued on February 1, 2006 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
By Nadav Morag
The National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism: An Assessment →
As the United States enters the twenty-first century, the biggest threat to the national security of the U.S. is terrorist organizations.
By Steve Ressler
Social Network Analysis as an Approach to Combat Terrorism: Past, Present, and Future Research →
This article analyses the National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism issued on February 1, 2006 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
By Nadav Morag
The National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism: An Assessment →
While expert risk analyses are based on calculations of probability and damage, public estimates of risk are more often based on qualitative factors. It is important to understand how the public, not just homeland security experts, perceive and react to the threat of terrorism.
By Clinton M. Jenkin
Risk Perception and Terrorism: Applying the Psychometric Paradigm →
Anecdotal evidence suggests mistakes are repeated incident after incident. It appears that while identifying lessons is relatively straightforward, true learning is much harder.
By Amy Donahue and Robert Tuohy
This article asks if the threat of violence by right-wing extremists, including their possible deployment of weapons of mass destruction, has been neutralized.
By Timothy G. Baysinger
Right-wing Group Characteristics and Ideology →
Much of the media-pundit and popular analysis that has followed the death of al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has focused on how his death will affect the outcome of the war in Iraq. However, the emphasis on outcome is not the right approach.
By Donald Reed
On Killing al-Zarqawi—Does United States Policy Know its Tools in the War on Terror? →
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
Changing Homeland Security: What Should Homeland Security Leaders Be Talking About? →
Philosophers have traditionally written from the perspective of ordinary people and they are as vulnerable to fear as other members of the public. Academic philosophers can contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of homeland security and disaster studies through extensions of social contract theory from political philosophy, and applications of moral systems.
By Naomi Zack
