PPT Slide
Issues and Insights (Continued)
- Homeland defense “forces,” including interagency actors, must be quickly deployable and available to “first responders,” combatant commanders, and others for domestic purposes, Foreign Humanitarian Assistance, Small Scale Contingencies, and Major Theaters of War. This implies risk assessments for force structure decisions.
- Rapid response and assessment is critical. Will military have to be ‘first responders”?
- Nunn-Lugar City Training program is a candle in the darkness, for consequence management in addressing the NBC Delta between civilian first responder capabilities for HAZMAT vis-a-vis WMD events. What is the extent of the Delta between NBC military warfighting capabilities and homeland defense requirements?