Domestic terrorism in the United States

staring at the sky. At that moment is when she saw a plane fly directly into her office in the South Tower. This is just one story from a lucky survivor of that infamous day. More than an attack on a single location, these were attacks on the United States of America that would forever change the country in more ways than one. As a result of the 9/11 attacks, the most affected aspects of life were airport operations, immigration regulations, and the initiation of the war on terror. Airports…

digitally. This had resulted in an ongoing debate between on balancing of national security and civil liberties. The government, however, argues that it is necessary to give up some privacy in order to obtain security which would allow them to combat terrorism. In this privacy vs security dispute, a division exists between exists between generations, income, and race. Millennials were born into an age of technology. For Millennials modern technology is personal computers, smart…

ask ourselves these questions when we study security and the answers vary depending on the viewpoint of each State. The hardest issue for actors in the system to address is terrorism. One of the reasons that it is such a hard issue to address is because of the different definitions and concepts people give terrorism. In the past, as Brenda Lutz and James Lutz said in the article on terrorism in our textbook, terrorist groups would rely on one of the great powers for support whereas now they…

politics being the rise of specific extreme terrorist organisation, Islamic State and what…

Economic Sanctions are characterized as a statecraft, which has been made for the advancement of Foreign Policy. In David, Balding words, Sanctions “are influenced attempts.” Where states seek to exert power over another international actor, that is, to do what they otherwise will not do. Since the post-war, the UN Security Council has authorized 26 multilateral sanctions , such as, in Haiti, Iraq, South Africa and Former Yugoslavia. Where compressive exchange sanctions were applied. However,…

Unity of Effect In 2004, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) position was created as part of the sweeping reforms from the 9/11 commission report. The DNI gained authority to oversee and manage the entire intelligence community with both domestic and foreign intelligence. As stated above, this community includes 17 federal agencies, 6 cabinet level departments, and 7 personnel systems. Additional this amalgamated group cuts across multiple jurisdictions, includes both appointed and…

Protecting Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. The Congress was able to create this Act within a short period of time because they “took existing legal principles and retrofitted them to preserve the lives and liberty of the American people from the challenges posed by a global terrorist network” ("Preserving Life and Liberty"). "The Patriot Act defines "domestic terrorism" as activities within the United States that . . . involve acts dangerous…

different but similar ways. For example, in their book Understanding Homeland Security, Noftsinger, Newbold, and Wheeler (2007) define homeland security as “a concerted national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism, minimize the damage, and recover from attacks that do occur” (pp. 29-30). In its 2010 Quadreannial Homeland Security Review Report, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) similarly defined HLS as “a concerted…

threat of terrorism has been and will continue to be a growing epidemic on an international scale. As recorded in history as early as the 1st-century AD with the Sicarii Zealots. Consequently the acts of terrorism began to transform drastically with the help of new technology, new ideologies, and a stronger will to cause disorder having an impact on the modern world both globally and locally. With the use of transnational terrorism tactics in a post-9/11 world, countries like the United States…

Saudi Arabia: A Petroleum Super Power and Strategically Placed Ally The gulf state of Saudi Arabia has built a booming petroleum-based economy with a strategic location of high importance to the United States and her interest. Saudi Arabia has the strongest economy on the Arabian Peninsula. Its investments in the PATRIOT missile system have catapulted them to the top slot of valuable allies that the United States has in the region. The strong cultural history of Saudi Arabia has helped…