[PDF] Assessing The Threat First Annual Report To The President And The Congress Of The Advisory Panel To Assess Domestic Response Capabilities For Terrorism Involving Weapons Of Mass Destruction eBook

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Page : 191 pages
File Size : 19,55 MB
Release : 2000
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A terrorist attack on some level inside the borders of the United States is inevitable and America must be ready. Much of the legitimate fear associated with the prospect of a terrorist attack can be substantially reduced. Improving our ability to address the threat and reducing the fear of citizens and government leaders is possible if-and only if-we are willing to take bold action as a nation. Specifically, we must: 1) craft a truly 'national" strategy to address the threat of domestic terrorism-conventional, cyber, chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear-from the perspectives of deterrence, prevention, preparedness and response; 2) empower a senior authority to be in charge of our overall planning and preparation in the Federal Executive Branch, with special emphasis on preserving our civil liberties in a time of emergency; 3) consolidate the Congressional approach to legislation governing domestic preparedness for such attacks; 4) concentrate much more serious attention on state and local concerns and capabilities; and 5) strengthen functional capabilities across all levels of government for intelligence collection and information sharing; planning, training, equipping and exercising; research and development; health and medical; and across all first responder stakeholders-fire, law enforcement, emergency medical services and emergency management. These five imperatives represent the major themes in this report.

Author : Alan O'Day
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351873954

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President George W. Bush maintained in his address of 20 September 2001, that the successful prosecution of the war against terrorism will require the judicious use of 'every resource at our command - every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary weapon of war'. Unlike the Cold War, the War on Terrorism is neither a battle against some ideology nor bounded by physical boundaries or conventional political units such as nation-states. The War on Terrorism is the internationalisation, or rather, globalisation of previous wars. Terror is not a nation, and the enemies in such wars are not nations; any regime such as Libya simply by repudiating terrorism, can become an ally of the anti-terror coalition. Regimes that continue to practice terrorism against domestic opponents qualify to participate in the wider war if they conform to certain norms in external affairs. The 28 articles reprinted here consider aspects of that most amorphous of animals - the War on Terrorism. They do not set out to provide all of the answers; nor do they radiate a unified vision of what constitutes the war on terrorism; the pieces begin from a range of political and intellectual outlooks. Taken as a group, however, the difficulties of determining the limits and nature of the war on terrorism receive important attention. The authors address several major themes within the war on terrorism: what falls within its perimeters, its shifting manifestations, implications, responses and future directions.

Author : Arnold M. Howitt
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780262582391

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Ways in which federal, state, and local institutions should integrate their efforts to prepare for future terrorist threats.