The Army National Guard and the Department of Homeland Security

Abstract

The citizen-soldiers of the Army National Guard have lost their focus and original purpose as a State Militia available for disaster recovery operations, assisting law enforcement, and defending the homeland. The pressure felt by the current operations tempo to use the Army National Guard as an operational reserve can only be alleviated by moving the Army National Guard from the Department of Defense to the Department of Homeland Security. Such a move will not cut off relationships developed between the Army and the National Guard, two organizations with a common history, but recognizes that the two organizations should have different primary missions of homeland security (National Guard) and national defense (U.S. Army). This realization of similar capabilities but different missions is already working between the U.S. Coast Guard and the Department of Navy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA521959

Entities

People

  • Ernest E. Rodgers Iii

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Personnel
  • Border Security
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Disasters
  • Governments
  • Homeland Defense
  • Homeland Security
  • Law
  • Military Science
  • National Guard
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design