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Funding Strategies for EMS Decision Makers

The huge increase in responsibilities assigned to EMS managers in recent years requires additional funding, and additional time as well. The latter is hard to come by, but DHS and HHS grants will provide significant new funding resources.

Medevac From Iraq: The Lessons Learned

Most U.S. service personnel wounded, injured, or hospitalized for other reasons in Iraq are quickly provided advanced medical treatment. The numerous lessons learned from this experience might usefully be applied to homeland-defense planning.

Nuclear Resiliency: Command Attention Required

The WWII Manhattan Project mahy serve as the model for a new approach to solve today’s homeland-security problems. A major improvement in senior leadership is needed, and a reallocation of resources, but that would be only the start.

Major General Michael Kostelnik, USAF (Ret)

DomPrep’s John Morton met with Major General Micheal C. Kostelnik, USAF (Ret.), assistant commissioner for Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine, CBP’s newly integrated Air and Marine organization.DomPrep has divided the 42 minute interview into eight segments.  Listen to Audio Segment OneAir/Marine Integration – The Structure for Administrative and Tactical

How to Build a Protective Wall Along the U.S.-Mexican Border

Returning illegal immigrants to their own countries will not solve the problem. What is really needed is a strong and constantly monitored high-tech physical barrier that will prevent illegal migrants from entering the United States in the first place.

Cyber Attacks: The Need for Resiliency

Ability of private businesses & public agencies to resume operations following a major disaster used to be taken for granted. That is no longer the case, particularly since hackers & terrorists discovered the damage that could be caused by modern technolo

Two Important New Components of National Security

The terrorist attacks on the U.S. Navy’s guided-missile destroyer USS Cole in October 2002 and, later, the French tanker Linberg awakened the world to the asymmetric maritime threat posed by terrorist organizations not only to the United States itself but also to other free nations. Responding to the challenges posed

What Is an Ambulance?

It used to be two strong men and a hearse. Modern EMS workers are now much better equipped to provide early lifesaving support both at the scene of an accident or incident and while en route to the nearest hospital or other medical facility.

Terrorism, LE, and the Relevance of Failed States

DPJ’s managing editor discusses a complex new factor in the terrorism/counterterrorism equation: the dangers posed to the Free World by nations out of control, with nothing to lose, and unable to cope with their own political and economic problems.

Major General Donna Barbisch, USA (Ret)

DomPrep’s John Morton met with Major General Donna F. Barbisch, USA (Ret.)” … Barbisch prioritizes planning … when it comes to [providing] medical support in catastrophic-incident responses.”DomPrep has divided the 43 minute interview into four segments.  Listen to Audio Segment One“Leveraging existing health system assets for integrated training/planning … [to increase]

A Score-Card Agenda for Capitol Hill

Homeland defense will be a key legislative focus this year in both the House and the Senate, with the Department of Homeland Security serving uncomfortably both as a target and, later, as a beneficiary.

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