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Protecting the American Homeland - One Year On (Paperback, Second Edition)
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Protecting the American Homeland - One Year On (Paperback, Second Edition)
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"A good deal has been done to improve the safety of Americans on
their own soil since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Yet there
have been numerous setbacks. The Bush administration and Congress
wasted at least six months in 2002 due to partisan disagreement
over a new budget for homeland security, and as one consequence,
resources were slow to reach first responders across the country.
Most improvements in homeland security have focused on ""refighting
the last war""-improving defenses against attacks similar to those
the country has already suffered. Not enough has been done to
anticipate possible new kinds of terrorist actions. Policymakers
have also focused too much attention on the creation of a
department of homeland security-rather than identifying and
addressing the kinds of threats to which the country remains
vulnerable. While the creation of a cabinet-level agency focusing
on homeland security may have merit, the authors of this study
argue that the department will not, in and of itself, make
Americans safer. To the contrary, the complexity of merging so many
disparate agencies threatens to distract Congress and the
administration from other, more urgent security efforts. This
second edition of Protecting the American Homeland urges
policymakers to focus on filling key gaps that remain in the
current homeland security effort: identifying better protection for
private infrastructure; using information technology to share
intelligence and more effectively ""connect the dots"" that could
hold hints to possible terrorist tactics; expanding the capacities
of the Coast Guard and Customs Service, as well as airline
transportation security; dealing with the possible threat of
surface-to-air missiles to airliners; and encouraging better
coordination among intelligence agencies. While acknowledging the
impossibility of preventing every possible type of terrorist
violence, the authors recommend a more systematic approach to
homeland security that focuses on preventing attacks that can cause
large numbers of casualties, massive economic or societal
disruption, or severe political harm to the nation. "
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