DOD, NORTHCOM, and the Department of Homeland Security
Prof James O Kievit, Prof Bert B Tussing
Issue Paper by the US Army War College, Center for Strategic Leadership
"Homeland security (HLS) gained an inescapable urgency as an aspect of the National Security Strategy on 11 September 2001. Since then, numerous fora, workshops, studies and symposia have been devoted to closing the gap between vulnerability to terrorism and domestic readiness in this country. Legislative directives and executive guidance have combined to reconfigure the face of federal, state, and local governments in order to respond to the first great crisis of the 21st Century."