Redefining the Conceptual Boundaries of Homeland Defense

  • By Anthony H. Cordesman
    Apr 3, 2000

    Challenges the belief that Homeland defense should focus on terrorism to the near exclusion of the threat of asymmetric attacks by states and their proxies, and that the threat estimates used for planning should be based on past patterns of terrorism or the probable capacity and intentions of current terrorist groups. States that the US must make coherent plans that link NMD, CBRN defense, and CIP defense, and make hard trade-offs as part of a coherent national defense program.

    Programs
    Burke Chair in Strategy, Burke Chair on U.S. Strategic and Defense Efforts
    Topics
    Defense and Security, Homeland Security
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