Stephen Flynn believes that there are goals of homeland security that are crucial to America’s bureaucracies and he senses that the country is wasting the chance to really protect the United States. Stephen discusses two crucial mistakes that he feels America has made and the first mistake is that he discusses is how homeland security is separated from national security. The two key intelligence agencies are not communicating. The second issue, he discusses is how our infrastructure is penetrable. In this lesson Stephen Flynn sees a problem with tactical thinking within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). One of the most critical aspects of the DHS is the communicating with local communities, law enforcement agencies, and private industries.
Stephen Flynn argues about several issues he sees with the DHS and how he feels the Department of Homeland Security inability to protect the United States. Mr. Flynn passionately argues how he feels that homeland security and national security should be jointly operated and not separated. Stephen Flynn vehemently argues how he feel and believes that …show more content…
In his case he shares his that there is no central front and that it is quite difficult for America to be able to project its power on multiple fronts. I agree with Mr. Flynn’s argument that we spend or have spent more money to fight a war in Iraq that I feel we had no business being there than we spent to protect our own seaports. The United States offers our enemies a vast menu of soft targets: water and food supplies; chemical plants; bridges, tunnels, and most important ports. Stephen Flynn suggests that several measures that were developed to protect the vital system named above are hardly fit to deter amateur thieves, smugglers, and let alone determined terrorists (Flynn,