Pros of National Defense and Homeland security

Pros of National Defense and Homeland Security

by Vinnie Dinezza and Alex Castellano

Mr.Ficker period 8

Information analysis and infastructure protection

Pros of Homeland Security continued

Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Countermeasures

• Homeland security is just a prevention method, NOT a cure to terrorism
• creates 170,000 well paid jobs out of 22 federal agencies.

• have access to all relevant intelligence and law enforcement information dealing with terrorist within the united states.
• access infastructure and vital resource vulnerabilities and develop a comprehensive national plan for securing them
• administer policy and public threat adivisories to state and local governments
• they also improve policy and procedures including information sharing at all levels of government.

Pros of Homeland Security

• securing the American population, infrastructure and resources from CBRN terrorist attacks

• coordinating countermeasure research and development.

• Homeland Security bill passed by President George W. Bush on November 25, 2002
• Combined many small federal agencies into one large agency which created more orginization.
• this bill was passed to help propel intelligence sharing and establish a new crisis response group.
• mainly created to help defend against terrorism

Emergency Preparedness and Response

Border and Transportation Security

4 types of Homeland security

1.Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection

2.Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Countermeasures

3.Border and Transportation Security

4. Emergency Preparedness and Response.

• preventing terrorists from entering the USA.
• securing 7,514 miles of contiguous border with Canada and Mexico and the 95,000 miles of shoreline as well as the ports, terminals and entry points into the country.
• administering immigration, naturalization and customs laws
• power to deny visas.

• ensure emergency preparedness; certify, train and fund Nuclear Incident Response Teams.

• manage the federal response to a major incident, directing and coordinating other federal, state or local

responders.

• consolidate existing federal emergency plans into a single, comprehensive and interoperable response strategy for personnel at all levels.

Pros of The Patriot act

national defense

Department of Defense

National defense

• rationalizes between varying companies which can work as one to look into terrorist activities.
• This also provides for easier ways of surveillance and investigation.
• This also gets rid of lots of barriers which law enforcement encountered if they required imposing surveillance or investigation on an alleged terrorist very fast.

• The U.S. spent more on defense in 2012 than did the countries with the next 10 highest defense budgets combined.
• today’s spending is more about politics than defense. (which basically means to make us look better than other countries.)
• in the year 1990 the usa had 750,000 active troops.
• presently there are about 510,000 active troops.

• The amount of man power over the past 2 decades has gone down, but the amount of machine power has gone up.
• national defense does not need as much troops because we have the technology to make up for the amount of troops that are not volunteering

• It is an excutive branch deparment that supervises all agencis and functions associated with national defense
• This department is the largest employer of the world
• The Department of Defense is headed by the Secretary of Defense, a cabinet-level head who reports directly to the President of the United States.

Patriot act continued

• The peak and sneak provision let police collect intelligence without warning a terrorist cell which they have been discovered.(kinda like wiretapping)
• This also offers enhanced funding for those victims of attacks and the rest of families and for the restoring of business which are affects by the attack.
• The Patriot Act provisions were carefully made in reply to the cases which led up to the terrorist attack happen on September 11, 2011.

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