Learning Objectives

This chapter will enable readers to do the following:

  1. Compare and contrast the difference between federal bureaucracy prior to and after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
  2. Evaluate the roles of law enforcement and service agencies and underlying interagency challenges
  3. Describe the post-9/11 bureaucratic transformation and the dawn of modern homeland security
  4. Evaluate the role of the Department of Homeland Security
  5. Analyze the homeland security roles of other federal agencies
  6. Apply the homeland security nexus with the military