Protecting the Homeland 2006/2007

Building further upon its previous edition, Protecting The Homeland 2006/2007 by the team of Michael D'Arcy, (A Lecturer in Science and Security at King's College) Michael O'Hanlon, (A Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings) Peter Orszag, (The Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings) Jeremy Shapiro, (The Director of Research for the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings) and James Steinberg (The Dean of Lyndon B. Johnson School Of Public Affairs) is a solid review of the current state of America's security, critically assessing America's remaining vulnerabilities and offering urgent suggestions to improve the situation. Topics discussed include the importance of intelligence reform, how to better protect infrastructure and provide incentives for the private sector to protect itself, border security, the roles of the Department of Defense and First Responders, countermeasures against specific weapons, and much more. Researched in depth, Protecting The Homeland drives home the message that even though readers today may feel slightly safer than they did in 2001, there remains a great deal to be done.

Protecting The American Homeland: A Preliminary Analysis is a methodical and highly serious account, collaboratively written by a team of Brooking scholars (Michael E. O'Hanlon; Peter R. Orszag; Ivo H. Daalder; I. M. Destler; David L. Gunter; Robert E. Litan; James B. Steinberg), laying out a four-tiered plan to support the efforts of the Bush administration and Congress to ensure America's security from terrorists... Offering suggestions such as increasing federal spending on homeland security to ... and then upgrading the authority of the director of the Office of Homeland Security rather than create a new superagency, Protecting The American Homeland is a well-thought out and welcome contribution to the current national dialogue as it offers an important perspective for our post-911 national security needs.