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2: What is Homeland Security?
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... national security, a catastrophic terrorist assault on U.S. soil, a major reorganization of government unprecedented since the 1947 National Security Act (which created the Department of Defense [DOD]
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... The committee faced the dilemma of having to evaluate education frameworks in homeland security as if a consensus on the term exists within government and the academy, when it does not. A priority for higher education should be to promote public and professional dialogue as to what constitutes a socially acceptable definition of homeland security and what are the practical institutional means to achieve it.
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