2-3 Areas of Homeland Security that Continue to Require Improvement

2-3 Areas of Homeland Security that Continue to Require Improvement

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2-3 Areas of Homeland Security that Continue to Require Improvement

Background

Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on United States, our sense of security and safety within our communities and nation has been fundamentally changed. Ever since 11th September, 2001, homeland security has been the major policy focus as the country was in a phase of uncertainty as in how to contend with the new apparition of terrorism in the U.S. In this context both the practitioners and students in emergency management and homeland security should not only learn to get ready for a vague future, but also to take in hand the systemic tension that homeland security puts on American society and government. If homeland security's public servants are to deal efficiently with these kinds of complex challenges and changes, together with augmented services demands and greater responsibility, they ought to become accomplished in higher-level reasoning and thinking abilities. Each day the professionals of homeland security and emergency management examine through an great amount of information to take in and acclimatize knowledge for the clarification and solutions of the problems. Therefore, the use of critical thinking is very important in examining complex as well as simple situations in the everyday tasks of public servants, predominantly those in the continuously changing areas of homeland security and emergency management. The malfunction in using these types of skills in a manmade or natural catastrophe can bring about destruction of property, mass casualties and most significantly the loss of public trust as we came across after the terrorist attacks on 11th September, 2001 and Hurricane Katrina in August, 2005. The September 11th, 2001 attacks and Hurricane Katrina should by no means be overlooked, nor should the sufferers of ...