NISSSC - Center for Homeland Security
Center for Homeland Security
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
(719) 255-3334
(719) 255-3909 FAX
PAD 5950: Introduction to Homeland Defense |
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course provides an overview of homeland security, with an emphasis on homeland
defense and U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), its mission, the other
government organizations it interfaces with, and constraints on those relationships.
Course participants will gain an understanding of homeland security and
homeland defense from the perspectives of the primary national-level players:
the Department of Defense, USNORTHCOM, and the Department of Homeland Security.
Major topics include the national strategy for homeland security, strategic and
military force approaches to countering the terrorist threat, civilian and
military roles, military-civil relationships based on Posse Comitatus, the
National Guard, and USNORTHCOM and North American Aerospace Defense Command
(NORAD) roles and missions.
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