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Abstract 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…

concern as they do terrorist events. When it comes to natural disasters, many people including officials believe prior to a catastrophic event that it will not happen here, or it will not happen to me (Kunreuther, 2006). I reside on the New Jersey coast line and even though the risk of hurricanes is possible, the threat is not as high as in other areas such as Florida. People in my area do not prepare accordingly or believe the hurricane threat is a risk to consider…

The United States Coast Guard describes the undertaking as “...one of the greatest in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard (“Bernard C. Webber, USCG”, 1).” The United States Coast Guard is a merger of five Federal agencies that were once independent, but with overlapping responsibilities. These agencies are the Revenue Cutter Service, the Lighthouse Service, the Steamboat Inspection Service, the Bureau of Navigation, and the Lifesaving Service ("U.S. Coast Guard History", 1). Since this is the…

Putting ourselves in the shoes of a captain of a 200-foot Coast Guard cutter with a crew of only 16 can be hard to imagine. As the role of the captain, everyone looks to you in direction of what needs to be done upon an emergency case. It is important characteristic as the captain to analyze each possible outcome of your decisions before the final one could be made. During the Coast Guard Cutter Decision, when there’s potential yet not definite chance of finding survivors after a reported plane…

The U.S. Customs & Border Protection is responsible for maintaining border security. Their primary duty is keeping terrorists and their weapons away from the U.S. homeland. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services only responsibility is overseeing lawful 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…

The Department of Homeland Security is an appropriate organizational design for several essential elements which are transferring immigration and naturalization service, border patrol, U.S. customs service, animal and plant health inspection service, U.S. Coastguard, and transportation security administration. The intelligence community mission is to supply the homeland security enterprise with timely intelligence information that is needed to protect, safe, resilient, and secure the United…

Homeland Security is a government-funded agency that fights to ensure that the people of the United States is safe and secure against terrorism. On November 25, 2002, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was founded by former President George Bush, following the September 11th attacks that killed thousands of innocent people. Today Homeland Security’s mission is to protect America and its citizens from terrorist attacks and to work in the best interest for the American people. On September…

knowledge of becoming a leader and building courage for the long haul of my college academic years. During my junior year of college, I was chosen to become an Engineer Command Mentor at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. While at the Academy I was trained by some of the top officers of the Coast Guard on Leadership and learning yourself. It was there that I learned that Leaders must know there own potential before discovering others potential. I went on to complete 44.7 hours…

increase every time a new system is added to the fleet. The main goal of Coast Guard cyber intelligence is staying ahead of the hackers. To do this, Coast Guard intelligence needs to understand who will attack them in the future and how they will do it. They need to know everything that was just discussed above, including the type of person, capability, vulnerability, and threat level to the United States government and the Coast Guard. If one or all of these are not known, cyber defenders…

The Strategy Hierarchy and Homeland Security The concept of homeland security can be described as a collective interaction and marshalling of resources involving a various agencies at the federal, state, and local levels to protect U.S. borders and the mainland from threats posed by state actors, non-state actors, and other malicious entities. Additional threats homeland security must contend with include those that are biological origin such as highly pathogenic viruses as well as natural…