Homeland defense that is, the military's role in preventing and defending against terrorist attacks on the territory of Alliance members is an increasingly important imperative for the United States, Canada and Europe. NATO has the opportunity to articulate a strategic direction and planning process for homeland defense to ensure that relevant Alliance activities and capabilities are adapted and integrated to deal with these new threats. NATO's activities in many areas for example, its protection of Mediterranean sealanes against weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and terrorists provide multiple elements that can be united to form a homeland defense initiative at Riga. Such an initiative would be intended to complement, not detract from, national and European Union (EU) capabilities and institutions that bear the major responsibility for ensuring homeland security. This initiative would offer NATO both a 21st-century approach to Article 5 and new meaning and credibility in the eyes of NATO publics who are concerned about threats to their homelands.1 This report proposes that enhanced transatlantic homeland defense be a major initiative for adoption at the 2006 Riga Summit and completion at the 2008 summit. Accompanying this initiative would be parallel proposals on strengthening partnerships with nonmembers and further improving NATO's military forces and capabilities for new-era missions. The initiative would include four categories of homeland defense, none of which would address expeditionary, counterterrorism, natural disaster, and humanitarian missions outside the NATO area. In some cases, capabilities created for homeland defense purposes could be used within and outside the NATO area for such civil-military missions.
Transatlantic Homeland Defense
2006
7 pages
Report
No indication
English
Emergency Services & Planning , Military Sciences , Police, Fire, & Emergency Services , Homeland defense , Terrorists , Military forces(United states) , Nato , United states , Threats , Military capabilities , Homeland security , Mass destruction weapons , Strategic defense initiative , Military planning , Terrorism , European union
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