[Infowarrior] - Fwd: Homeland security ill-defined

[Richard Forno]

(c/o MM)

January 10, 2013
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> CRS: Homeland security ill-defined
> Filed under: General Homeland Security — by Philip J. Palin on January 10, 2013
> http://www.hlswatch.com/2013/01/10/crs-homeland-security-ill-defined/
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> Thanks to the FAS Secrecy Project, a Congressional Research Service report on Defining Homeland Security is available for you consideration. From the report’s summary:
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> Varied homeland security definitions and missions may impede the development of a coherent national homeland security strategy, and may hamper the effectiveness of congressional oversight. Definitions and missions are part of strategy development. Policymakers develop strategy by identifying national interests, prioritizing goals to achieve those national interests, and arraying instruments of national power to achieve the national interests. Developing an effective homeland security strategy, however, may be complicated if the key concept of homeland security is not defined and its missions are not aligned and synchronized among different federal entities with homeland security responsibilities.This report discusses the evolution of national and DHS-specific homeland security strategic documents and their homeland security definitions and missions, and analyzes the policy question of how varied homeland security definitions and missions may affect the development of national homeland security strategy.
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