Combating Terrorism: A Proliferation of Strategies : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, March 3, 2003U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003 - 182 pages |
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... preemption could actually be counterproductive to assuring the security of the United States of America , our home ? Mr. DECKER . Sir , I can only answer that the executive branch , the President has a lot of challenges he has to ...
... preemption could actually be counterproductive to assuring the security of the United States of America , our home ? Mr. DECKER . Sir , I can only answer that the executive branch , the President has a lot of challenges he has to ...
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... preemption , it doesn't appear that Iraq measures up to what would be the basis for preemptive action , that they haven't met that level , and on the other hand , North Korea presents a greater challenge , and I would not advo- cate a ...
... preemption , it doesn't appear that Iraq measures up to what would be the basis for preemptive action , that they haven't met that level , and on the other hand , North Korea presents a greater challenge , and I would not advo- cate a ...
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... preemption . And I know that time is out , so let me just quickly say , the preemption strategy is the national security strategy sort of benchmark or famous slogan that went along with the national security strategy last fall . To me ...
... preemption . And I know that time is out , so let me just quickly say , the preemption strategy is the national security strategy sort of benchmark or famous slogan that went along with the national security strategy last fall . To me ...
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... preemption has some merit , the decision to articulate it formally has caused us more harm than good . North Korea's decision to accelerate its nuclear weapons program is probably exhibit A. ( Other dimensions of the national security ...
... preemption has some merit , the decision to articulate it formally has caused us more harm than good . North Korea's decision to accelerate its nuclear weapons program is probably exhibit A. ( Other dimensions of the national security ...
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... PREEMPTION The new shift in emphasis on preemptive and preventive uses of force is a response to the terrorist ... preemption and is drawn largely from a Brookings policy brief coauthored late last year with James Steinberg and ...
... PREEMPTION The new shift in emphasis on preemptive and preventive uses of force is a response to the terrorist ... preemption and is drawn largely from a Brookings policy brief coauthored late last year with James Steinberg and ...
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Page 27 - National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace and The National Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Key Assets (hereafter referred to in this testimony as the cyberspace security strategy and the physical protection strategy).
Page 64 - These are representatives of the true "first responders" — those heroic men and women who put their lives on the line every day for the public health and safety of all Americans. Moreover, so many of these panel members are also national leaders in their professions: our EMS member is a past president of the national association of emergency medical technicians; one of our emergency managers is the past president of her national association; our law officer...
Page 105 - Bush administration approach involves six "critical mission areas": intelligence and warning, border and transportation security, domestic counterterrorism, protecting critical infrastructures and key assets, defending against catastrophic threats, and emergency preparedness and response. The administration also proposed four key methods, or "foundations," for enhancing all six areas: law, science and technology, information sharing and systems, and international cooperation.
Page 48 - The United States has long maintained the option of preemptive actions to counter a sufficient threat to our national security.
Page 129 - The most urgent unmet national security threat to the United States today is the danger that weapons of mass destruction or weapons-usable material in Russia could be stolen and sold to terrorists or hostile nation states and used against American troops abroad or citizens at home.
Page 75 - The Panel concludes that the Nation must be prepared for the entire spectrum of potential terrorist threats — both the unprecedented higher-consequence attack, as well as the historically more frequent, lesser-consequence terrorist attack, which the Panel believes is more likely in the near term. Conventional explosives, traditionally a favorite tool of the terrorist, will likely remain the terrorist weapon of choice in the near term as well. Whether smaller-scale CBRN or conventional, any such...
Page 67 - ... Funded Research and Development Center. We have been exceptionally fortunate to have that support provided by The RAND Corporation. The breadth and depth of experience at RAND in terrorism and policy issues across a broad spectrum have made possible the panel's success in accomplishing its mandate. Its assessments of federal programs, its case studies and hundreds of interviews across the country and around the world, its seminal work in surveying state and local response entities nationwide,...
Page 142 - First Annual Report to the President and the Congress of the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction, /. Assessing the Threat, December 15, 1999; and.
Page 62 - Member, and Members of the Subcommittee, I am honored to be here today. I come before you as the Chairman of the Advisory Panel to Assess Demesne Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction.