Drawing upon resource material provided and discovered while conducting your own
Drawing upon resource material provided and discovered while conducting your own research, answer both of the following topics in a research paper:
1) Fully describe the overall concepts of homeland security* and homeland defense. Construct a response that fully provides the following related to these two broad-based initiatives:
Primary missions, tasks, responsibilities, operations, etc. for homeland security and defense.
Highlight those areas that are shared and common interests between the two (joint endeavors between HLS and HLD?)
Lastly, recommend your won definition for homeland security.
2) Adhering to the overarching theme and approach of the current National Security Strategy (NSS), provide your own recommendations regarding how the top threat you identified in the week three discussion should be addressed moving forward. Offer specifics as to how key elements of your proposal would be approached and implemented in accordance with Ends, Ways, and Means strategy framework.
This second part of the assignment looks at a threat you chose and basically asks you to describe what you think should be included in a framework for a specific national strategy to deal with it (underneath the NSS). In other words, if you were on the National Security Council Staff and asked to write a strategy to counter terrorism (for example), what do you think it should say. Note that the NSS is for overall national security (national defense abroad, homeland security, intelligence actions, economic levers, etc). However, a specific national strategy framework (such as a National Strategy to Counter Terrorism or NSCT) only addresses how to counter the terror threat.
*Note: Be aware of the fact that “homeland security” and resources needed to carry it out are made up of much more than just DHS. This agency is only one part (or cog) of the larger Homeland Security Enterprise that includes representatives from all level of government, the private sector partners and others.
Technical Requirements
– Your paper must be at a minimum of 4-6 pages (the Title and Reference pages do not count towards the minimum limit). Make sure your paper content meets the minimum acceptable length of FULL pages of text. Also do not exceed the maximum page length of pages of your main body in your paper for content as “more is not better” in academic writing.
– Written according to the APA 7th edition style and format (parenthetical in-text citation formats only; not end notes or footnotes);
– Use Times New Roman 12 point font (use the example paper attached to the midterm assignment instructions as a template for proper formatting);
– 1 inch margins on all sides with no paragraph indentation other than the first line by .5 inches
– Double space all text (no extra lines or spaces after a paragraph or section headings and no added font sizes or lines either)
