The Army and Homeland Security: A Strategic Perspective

Abstract

The topic of homeland security includes a broad array of missions and mission areas ranging from national missile defense to military assistance to civil authorities. The topic has recently attracted a great deal of attention due to the public's heightened awareness of the variety and nature of emerging threats and of the United States vulnerabilities to them. The Army Staff was assigned to investigate the Army's role in homeland security from a strategic, rather than a legal or procedural perspective. The author achieves this perspective by placing homeland security missions within the larger spectrum of operations. In so doing, he exposes potential problem areas--missions requiring more or different force structure than that already available--for further action by the Army. He also recommends that the Army consider alternative force-sizing metrics that include, as a minimum, the high-end homeland security identified in the study.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA387874

Entities

People

  • Antulio J. Echevarria Ii

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arms Control Treaties
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Cruise Missiles
  • Cybersecurity
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Homeland Defense
  • Homeland Security
  • Information Systems
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • War Colleges
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.