(Ebook) Protecting the American Homeland: One Year on by Michael E. O'Hanlon ISBN 9780815764533, 0815764537

(Ebook) Protecting the American Homeland: One Year on by Michael E. O'Hanlon ISBN 9780815764533, 0815764537

This second edition urges policymakers to focus on filling key gaps that remain in the current homeland security effort in 2003: identifying better protection for private infrastructure; using information technology to share intelligence and more effectively ''connect the dots'' that could hold hints to possible terrorist tactics; expanding the capacities of the coast guard and customs service, as well as airline transportation security; dealing with the possible threat of surface-to-air missiles to airliners; and encouraging better co-ordination among intelligence agencies. While acknowledging the impossibility of preventing every possible type of terrorist violence, the authors recommend a more systematic approach to homeland security that focuses on preventing attacks that can cause a large number of casualties, massive economic or societal disruption, or severe political harm to the nation.