The Forgotten Homeland : A Century Foundation Task Force Report Paperback / softback
by Rand Beers
Paperback / softback
Description
The Forgotten Homeland gathers some of the leading homeland security experts to analyze the nation's most significant vulnerabilities and to propose strategies to reduce them.
The report addresses terrorist as well as nonterrorist threats and offers ideas for strengthening all aspects of our emergency response -including our ability to respond to natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.
Key topics covered include protecting transportation networks, upgrading "first response" capabilities, confronting the unconventional weapons challenge, and gaining better intelligence.
Task force members include Catherine Allen (Banking Industry Technology Secretariat), Roger W.
Cressey (formerly National Security Council), R. P. Eddy (Center for Policing Terrorism/Gerson Lehrman Group), Stephen E.
Flynn (Council on Foreign Relations), John Gannon (formerly National Intelligence Council), General John A.
Gordon (USAF, Ret.), Juliette Kayyam (Harvard University), Lawrence Korb (Center for American Progress), Paul Kurtz (Cyber Security Industry Alliance), Jamie Metzl (formerly Council on Foreign Relations), Martin O'Malley (mayor of Baltimore), Dan Prieto (Harvard University), Alison Silverstein (formerly Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), Steven Simon (RAND Corporation), John Tritak (formerly Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office), and Lee Zeichner (Zeichner Risk Analytics).
The project directors for the task force are Robert K.
Knake (Good Harbor Consulting) and Steven Simon (RAND Corporation).
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Brookings Institution
- Publication Date:01/02/2006
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- ISBN:9780870784989
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Brookings Institution
- Publication Date:01/02/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780870784989
