Terrorism And The Homeland Security - 1511 Words

In homeland security they have many strategies to help protect the United States. Whether it is preventing a terrorist attack, or preventing a natural disaster. Homeland security has a strategy to make sure that everything works out. Now to give a brief background, President George Bush came up with the national homeland security strategy in July, 2002 after the attack of September, 11th. â€Å"The strategy set forth overall objectives to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism, and minimize the damage and assist in the recovery from attacks that occur (Rabkin).† Now in November of that same year, the Homeland Security Act, was passed into a law furthermost creating the department†¦show more content†¦This meaning that homeland security will start stepping in to first detect the problem. They are going to get people on the inside with the terrorist no matter what they have to do, to detect what the t errorist’s plan of attack is. They will then start to deter the terrorists. They will start watching them trying to put holes in their plan. Then that is when they step in and disrupt the whole attack and try to take the groups down. Now this doesn’t always happen as planned, so the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) will protect the people potential targets of the attacks. This meaning that even if they don’t find out the plan, and hear a rumor of the threat of an attack, they will step up the protection of the target against all capable terrorists. Now when they are not protecting a target, or stopping an attack, they are trying to prevent and deter the violent domestic extremism and radicalism that contributes to all of these terrorist attacks. This meaning that when they are not involved with stopping an attack or protecting a target, the DHS is out trying to prevent people from joining with these radical groups that are committing these attacks. The y are trying to lure people away from getting involved with these extremist groups that are committing these attacks. Now the way they are going about doing this, is to get a group of participation out of the community. If the DHS gets