Homeland Security
Countering Terrorism on the Domestic Front
One of this Commission’s most important conclusions in its Phase I report was that attacks against American citizens on American soil, possibly causing heavy casualties, are likely over the next century. This is because both the technical means for such attacks, and the array of actors who might use such means, are proliferating despite the best efforts of American diplomacy.These attacks may involve weapons of mass destruction and weapons of mass disruption. As porous as U.S. Physical borders are in an age of burgeoning trade and travel, its "cyber borders" are even more porous — and the critical infrastructure upon…
