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
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
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
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
Terrorism produces what is conventionally called disaster. The locus of the response to disaster is the community, which as a unit has the social capital necessary to respond to disasters.
By Russell Dynes
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
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
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
In reorganizing homeland defense after 9/11, the government had three options: White House control, power sharing between agencies, or congressional control.
By Charles Perrow
