Homeland Security

Homeland Security

Homeland Security

Introduction

Homeland Security is tasked to defend the homeland from any interior and external threats of terrorism either by deterrence, avoidance, or pre-emption. It has been tasked to insure the safety and sovereignty of the homeland community, territory, and infrastructure. As the events of September 11, 2001 demonstrated, homeland security, as a notion, defence, or a security department did not exist. All that existed were several agencies to accumulate data but not actually assigned to assimilate and proceed upon such security risk reports. (Department of Homeland Security: History, August, 2007)Thus, the Muslim extremist assembly renowned as Al-Qaeda successfully ...