An Interagency Command for Homeland Security

<p>On 11 September 2001 America was brutally attacked on its own soil. Nine days later on 20 September 2001 President Bush announced the creation of the Office for Homeland Security. This office is charged to pull together the efforts of all the organizations with a role in homeland security but it does not go far enough. Interagency interaction at only the highest levels is not enough to knock down barriers to ensure quick richly informed decision-making and adaptable action. To do this a new kind of interagency command for homeland security needs to be established. This organization would be under the Office for Homeland Security. It would take jointness to a level that transcends the military to include non-DoD and even non-governmental actors and effectively coordinate the use of all the instruments of power. This paper explores organizational structures and uses the structure of a combatant command to suggest on how all of the organizations involved in homeland security can effectively work together. A boundaryless war requires a boundaryless response and our current method of ensuring our homeland security is a far cry from that.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>