Homeland Defense and Consequence Management

 

IFPA is exploring the issues surrounding homeland defense and consequence management, which together make up a major emerging area of concern in the defense community. As the U.S. home territory becomes increasingly vulnerable to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and other unconventional threats such as cyberterrorism, it, like its principal NATO allies and its key allies in the Asia-Pacific region, Japan and the Republic of Korea, can no longer be considered a sanctuary in a dangerous world. The Institute is at the forefront of the effort to clarify the issues and recommend ways to improve domestic preparedness and facilitate effective collaboration between the many disparate agencies at all levels of government that would respond in a WMD crisis.

 

This work, which also includes looking at how to prepare for an overseas crisis where either a U.S. facility is the target or an ally or friendly state requests help from the United States, is being carried out in support of various U.S. military commands, including U.S. Joint Forces Command (formerly USACOM), U.S. Space Command, U.S.Pacific Command, and U.S Forces Korea. IFPA has also wroked closely with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) on these and related matters, given the USCG's increasingly iimportant role in homeland defense planning and operations. In separate efforts, IFPA has been iinvestigating NATO preparedness for a range of WMD-related crises as well as avenues of cooperation between the United States and Japan in responding to a variety of crisis situations. In addition to exploring better ways of detecting and deterring emerging challenges to homeland security, the Institute has also initiated an overarching study of post-attack consequence management priorities, focusing on how best to manage and mitigate the consequences of a catastrophic/WMD attack on U.S. or key allied/partner state territory once it has occurred. Improving our capabilities to do so can, in turn, enhance our overall deterrence posture. Finally, the Institute is preparing to assist various individual state governments as they set up counterpart offices to the national Homeland Security Office.

35th IFPA-Fletcher Conference on
National Security Strategy and Policy: Planning for and Responding to Threats to the U.S. Homeland

On October 28-29, 2004, IFPA convened the thirty-fifth IFPA-Fletcher conference on national security strategy and policy, "Planning for and Responding to Threats to the U.S. Homeland," at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. Organized with the cosponsorship of U.S. Northern Command and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and with the support of the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense, the meeting addressed homeland security and homeland defense since 9/11 and future challenges. More...

U.S.-Japan Crisis-Management Cooperation

In June 2000, IFPA and the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) launched a joint two-year study entitled Enhancing Joint Crisis Management Capabilities: Issues and Policy Options for Japan-U.S. Cooperation. The study examined key policy issues and options related to joint crisis management between Japan and the United States. Through a series of case studies, the project explored how Tokyo and Washington can better prepare for and respond to an array of crisis scenarios ranging from traditional security threats to emerging challenges. The study also anticipated the multiplicity of organizational and policy implications of a joint response to future crises. Two bilateral workshops were held in support of the project, one in Washington, D.C., in November 2000, and one in Tokyo, Japan, in April 2002. More...

Space and Information Operations in a Homeland Security Contingency

IFPA organized and convened a workshop in support of General Ralph E. Eberhart, USAF, commander in chief, U.S. Space Command, and Dr. Stephen Younger, director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Held on April 2, 2002, at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., the meeting addressed a variety of issues related to the post-9/11 security environment and its implications for space and information operations. More specifically, the workshop examined the lessons learned from 9/11; computer network defense and critical infrastructure protection in a homeland security contingency; interagency issues and steps for improved Interagency coordination for space, information and computer network operations; and space and information operations in a variety of warfare scenarios.

Maritime Preparedness

IFPA and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, in support of the U.S. Coast Guard and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), organized and convened a major conference on March 26-27, 2002, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Entitled "Meeting the Homeland Defense Challenge: Maritime and Other Critical Dimensions," the meeting focused on the numerous challenges facing the United States as it develops a comprehensive approach to meet existing and emerging homeland threats. Major topics addressed included assessing and prioritizing homeland vulnerabilities post-9/11; examining maritime issues including legal, jurisdictional, interagency, and public-private issues, options for transportation security and consequent management planning; and, evaluating current/projected homeland defense policies/programs and options with a particular focus on the maritime security role of the U.S. Coast Guard. More...

 

Workshop on Homeland Security and Special Operations: Sorting-Out Procedures, Capabilities, and Operational Issues

 

On January 17, 2002, IFPA organized and convened this high-level, interagency, classified workshop in support of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).The meeting was designed as an interagency brainstorming session to help Generals Charles R. Holland, USAF, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Special Operations Command (CINC U.S. SOCOM), and William F. Kernan, USA, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Joint Forces Command (CINC U.S. JFCOM), and their respective command leaderships refine their thinking about homeland security. Particular focus was given to the ways in which the commands can most usefully support and implement presidential and/or Defense Department taskings and lead-agency mission directives in counterterrorist contingencies in the United States, especially those in which terrorist actors may have access to weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The broader purpose of this workshop was to examine the lessons learned
so far in the war on terrorism and to gain greater clarity as to how DoD and non-DoD assets can best complement each other in the homeland security arena. To facilitate both objectives, participation in this meeting included senior representation from the Departments of Defense, State, Treasury, and Justice, as well as from the Homeland Security Office, the National Security Council, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Joint Staff, and the National Guard Bureau.

 

An unclassified thematic summary of the workshop discussion is available for download in Adobe's PDF format. A list of participants and the workshop agenda are appended to this report.

Exercise Eagle Resolve 2000: U.S.-Gulf Cooperation Council Conference on the Cooperative Defense Initiative and Consequence Management

The Institute organized a senior-level workshop on the Cooperative Defense Initiative and Consequence Management in support of General Anthony C. Zinni, USMC, commander in chief, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). Entitled Eagle Resolve 2000, the three-day meeting, held in Manama, Bahrain, on 6-9 May 2000, examined a series of issues related to the elements of the Cooperative Defense Initiative, including active defense, passive defense, and command and control, with a particular emphasis on consequence management capabilities and concerns. The meeting assessed the prospects for cooperation between the United States and the GCC nations in these specific areas of defense planning. U.S. participants were drawn from both the governmental sector and the non-governmental policy community. They included Dr. Edward L. Warner III, assistant secretary of defense for strategy and threat reduction, Dr. Jay Davis, director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and Ms. Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, director of transnational threats, the National Security Council. More...

 

Other U.S. and GCC participants and attendees at the meeting included CENTCOM component commanders, other U.S. flag officers, GCC chiefs of defense staff and GCC service chiefs.

IFPA affiliate National Security Planning Associates (NSPA) produced a summary report based on the proceedings of the meeting.

Supporting U.S. Joint Forces Command

IFPA has held two Pentagon workshops as part of its work for U.S. Forces Command (formerly USACOM), the military command charged with developing Defense Department-wide homeland defense and consequence management plans. Military Support to Foreign Consequence Management: Developing an Implementation Plan for USACOM took place in July 1998, and Homeland Defense: Responding to a WMD Incident on CONUS [continental United States] Military Installations was held in January 1999. IFPA's research and analysis, has contributed to structures and procedures for coordinating DoD support to a first response and to follow-on responses in the event of a WMD incident, be it at home or overseas.

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