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A Helping Hand from the Defense CBRN Response Force

Jamie Stowe March 28, 2012

The recent upgrading of the Defense Department’s former CBRN Consequence Management Response Force means that states, cities, and smaller communities throughout the country will have much greater medical response capabilities – personnel as well as equipment – than was ever before possible.

CBRN FUNDING: Going Backwards Is Not Smart

Stephen Reeves March 28, 2012

The huge budget problems now facing the nation are on a collision course with the rapidly escalating possibility of new CBRN incidents and events that could devastate entire communities. A distinguished former Department of Defense program official puts the dilemma into context and provides several useful guidelines to follow.

Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI) Roundtable

W. Ross Ashley March 27, 2012

In the 21st century, combatting terrorism could be as simple as seeing something and saying something. Suspicious activity may signify terrorist activity, but that can only be determined if the right information gets into the right hands. Listen to W. Ross Ashley’s audio roundtable discussion on the Nationwide Suspicious Activity

Advances in Medical Countermeasures for Chemical Terrorism

Bruce Clements March 13, 2012

With the potential to kill thousands in a single attack, chemical warfare agents have been an ongoing threat to nations around the world since World War I. Although efforts have been made to reduce the production and stockpiling of these deadly chemicals, there remains a need not only to stockpile

Needed: ‘Off-the-Shelf’ Solutions for CBRN Protection

James Wilcox March 7, 2012

Ready to Wear – When There Is No Time to Spare! That is, or should be, the slogan of the far-sighted and foresighted PPE clothing and equipment manufacturers who recognize that there is absolutely no time that can be wasted when a CBRN incident occurs and that first responders must

Forensic Incident Responses & Security Preparedness

Dawn R. Blanche February 22, 2012

Eight “Centers of Excellence” established; a massive international “Challenge” competition; and a stunning, rapidly expanding, interest in the once arcane science and profession of digital forensics and various related fields. Those are but a few of the notable DC3 accomplishments achieved to date, but additional domains and designations are just

The Most Dangerous Existential Threat: Illegal Drugs

H. Steven Blum February 15, 2012

The flow of illegal drugs from Mexico into the United States is not a mere “problem” that affects only a few U.S. states along the U.S.-Mexico border, but rather a major national-security threat. Here, a former chief of the U.S. National Guard spells out the complicated details of this clear

NIMS/ICS and Drug-Enforcement Operations – Yes and No

Stephen Grainer February 15, 2012

Drug trafficking throughout the United States has become such an omnipresent danger that it can be diminished and eventually defeated only by the combined efforts of law-enforcement and intelligence agencies at all levels of government – local, state, and federal. Here, with the names of specific sources necessarily withheld, is

Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum, USA (Ret.), Discussion Centered on the Nation’s Drug Threat

Domestic Preparedness February 15, 2012

“Illegal drugs and their second- and third-order effects present what could arguably be the most dangerous and clear existential threat to the American people – more than any other horrific, catastrophic threat. With the ability to touch every citizen, reach every family, and affect every household, no one is completely

The ‘Big Business’ of Drug Smuggling

Lawrence O'Connell and MIchael Brewer February 8, 2012

The U.S. Coast Guard and DHS’s Customs & Border Protection Agency have achieved some remarkable interdiction successes in recent years, but so have drug smugglers and cartels. New approaches, tactics, and equipment are needed – along with additional personnel – to achieve a more effective long-term solution to what is

PTSD: The Front Lines of a New Conflict

Kate Rosenblatt February 8, 2012

The “save rate” of military personnel wounded in battle used to be extremely low. Now it is much higher, thanks in large part to better medicine and improved medical transport (ambulances and helicopters, primarily). However, one unanticipated result has been a huge increase in the survival of personnel suffering from

Lessons Learned: The Mass Shootings in Tucson

Sophia Paros February 1, 2012

In the violent world of the 21st century, there is no way to absolutely guarantee the safety of any one individual – for example, a Congresswoman holding a press conference at a Safeway without security. But, if nothing else, the senseless shooting last year of U.S. Representative Gabriel Giffords and

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