United States National Guard

many jobs such as, “ conducting investigations into terrorist threats and behavior, the smuggling of illegal substances into the country, illegal immigration, and other issues that affect the national security.” Like all government agents, homeland security agents have a mission to protect The United States of America, but by being a department specifically created after an international attack, they have certain pressures that put them in high priority. According to the Department of Homeland…

use descriptive definition verses legal definition to characterize them. Both have the same goals of protecting United States but utilizes available resources differently due the nature of the legalities of the Constitution and mission sets. Resources that come from local and state level are part of the Homeland Security structure are limited, with the exception of the National Guard due to its unique nature, which we will get to a little later. Homeland Security is first a local matter. It…

immigration into the United States. The issuance of visa’s and passport is not part of their duty, but remains a responsibility of the U.S. Department of State. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement also known as ICE is responsible for homeland security law enforcement. This includes enforcing criminal and civil federal laws that relate to customs trade, border control, and immigration. The U.S. Secret Service’s primary responsibility is to protect the President of the United States,…

the critical infrastructure of the United States and its domestic population (U.S. Department of Defense, 2003). An example of this would be the DoD’s role in incepting a terrorist-hijacked aircraft over American soil (Verga, 2007). Further the National Guard can be employed by the state of which the agency falls under at any given time per the discretion of the Governor of the state. This includes activations during emergencies and disasters. The National Guard is often recalled to assist…

president of the united states, he had the CIA investigate antiwar activist illegally. Richard M. Nixon was the 37th president of the united states, he claimed the existence of the “silent majority”, he wanted to end the war in a very peaceful way, one way was to not always publically speak. J. William Fulbright wrote a book against Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 called The Arrogance of power. The first key person is Lyndon B. Johnson, he became the 37th president of the united states , he came…

protestors had been getting furious with the war in Vietnam. From the early 1960s and 1970s, there was over 450 colleges protesting Vietnam around the United States.(history.com) There was a plethora of topics that the students protested. Overall, the student protesters made people believe that the Vietnam war was a terrible war and its all the United States fault. Student Protesters protested The Vietnam War because they believe that the war was a civil war between North and South…

policy were made to keep peace around the world (Document 2). In August 27, 1928, another treaty of peace were held in Paris known as the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the pact was an multilateral agreement attempting to eliminate the war as an instrument of national policy, with the help of the World Court, peace and international conflict were meant to be fixed by the use of word, not actions. Ultimately, in 1929, the Stock Market Crash made impossible to maintain international peace due to the attempt…

citizens can change the world” (“Quotes about activism”). Many students around the world wholeheartedly agree with Mrs. Mead, and two prime examples were youth activism in Vietnam Era and in the pro-democracy movement of China. The Vietnam Era in the United States got its name from the longest and most controversial war in American history. In the year 1955 president Lyndon B Johnson decided to send American troops to assist the democratic South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam, which…

Kent State justifiable? The shootings that happened at Kent State were not expected to happen, but they did. The protest got way out of hand when the protesters set the ROTC building on fire. “On April 30, 1970, President Richard M. Nixon appeared on national television to announce the invasion of Cambodia by the United States and the need to draft 150,000 more soldiers for an expansion of Vietnam War effort. This provoked massive protests on campuses throughout the country. At Kent State…

counterterrorism and national security. On September 11th, 2001, Richard A. Clarke, chair of the Counterterrorism Security Group, the CSG for short, guided the United States’ instantaneous response to the terrorist attacks from the infamous Situation Room located in the West Wing of the White House. It is from here, that Clarke starts his narrative. With a thirty-year career in national security, involving ten years in the White House, Richard Clarke brings a remarkably extensive perspective on…