Re-Awakening a Sleeping Giant

Abstract

This paper will concentrate on the unanswered question of federal leadership and/or management of the potentially vast federal assets which could possibly be required during periods that seemingly appear to be local in scope. Then they quickly build exhausting state and local resources and capabilities. These incidents continue to grow in increasing complex crisis management. Until eventually, it maybe recognized that they maybe unknowingly defending the sovereign soil of the United States of America. Do we need a federal management requiring a new Presidential Cabinet Secretary, another federal agency, a DOD "War Fighting" military Commander-in-Chief (CINC), or simply a new CZAR? In addition, if so, why? The paper is not to answer the question, only to readdress the already open issue. In doing so I will attempt to provide the uniform and non-uniform leadership of our nation, who will inevitably be required to answer that question with some historical and factual "food for thought". The design of this paper and purpose is simply to provide information that should lead the reader to believe that we already have such in place.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 30, 2001
Accession Number
ADA393287

Entities

People

  • John T. Washington

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Congress
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Employment
  • Health Services
  • Homeland Defense
  • Homeland Security
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Public Policy
  • Recreation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Strategic Security Studies