Understanding Homeland Security
Third Edition
Learning Objectives
This chapter will enable readers to do the following:
- Compare and contrast the difference between federal bureaucracy prior to and after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
- Evaluate the roles of law enforcement and service agencies and underlying interagency challenges
- Describe the post-9/11 bureaucratic transformation and the dawn of modern homeland security
- Evaluate the role of the Department of Homeland Security
- Analyze the homeland security roles of other federal agencies
- Apply the homeland security nexus with the military