The Role of the National Guard in Homeland Security
Abstract
The United States experienced a wake-up ca%l as a result of the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11 2001. Many civic and military leaders had previously warned of the dangers by terrorists to this nation and its citizenry but efforts to equip train and build appropriate safeguards to prevent and react to such actions and measures had been limited. The events on that September morning proved that this nation is no longer immune to terrorist atrocities within the confines of the homeland and appropriate expedient and creative measures will be needed to meet this asymmetnoal threat. Reserve Component forces have become the choice of military force to respond to incidences of homeland security (HLS) although the primary mission for these forces resides with the support to the combatant commanders for overseas contingencies. Various plans and actions have taken place to properly rebalance the force to better achieve success for both missions but much work remains. This paper addresses issues related with the Total Force Policy as it affects the National Guard forces to meet both the HLS mission and the overseas combatant commander missions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 11, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA423784
Entities
People
- William F. Kuehn
Organizations
- United States Army War College