出版社：Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security
摘要：In this essay, Christopher Bellavita reviews what he considers to be ten essential homeland security books, those works he finds himself returning to as he seeks to understand contemporary homeland security events. These include the 9/11 Commission Report (2004); The National Strategy for Homeland Security (2002); After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era (2003); Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror (2004); America the Vulnerable: How Our Government is Failing to Protect Us From Terrorism (2004); Homeland Security: A Complete Guide to Understanding, Preventing, and Surviving Terrorism (2005); Catastrophe Preparation and Prevention for Law Enforcement Professionals (2008); Trapped in the War on Terror (2006); Unconquerable Nation: Knowing Our Enemy; Strengthening Ourselves (2006); and the Declaration of Independence (1776), the Articles of Confederation (1777), and the Constitution of the United States of America (1787). Taken together, Bellavita says, “these works outline a broad historical narrative about homeland security. We were attacked. We quickly developed a strategy to make sure we prevented future attacks. We tried to come to terms with what happened to us as a nation…. Homeland security took the first steps toward becoming institutionalized.” Not all of the works reviewed in this essay agree with current policy, but that very disagreement is important. Homeland security gets better through the open exchange of competing and contrasting ideas. Keeping this essential debate open and free helps ensure we will remain an “Unconquerable Nation.
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