It’s Time for TSA 2.0: Let General Harding Focus on Operations

On March 18, 2010, in Original Analysis, by admin

What the TSA needs now is a good makeover; hopefully Major General (retired) Robert Harding is going to be the one to bring in the new broom . TSA has languished for years under a cloud of mistakes, errors and just plain carelessness with respect to their public image and their overall effectiveness. Most recently, [...]

Toward Operational Art for Policing

On October 29, 2009, in Original Analysis, by admin

by John P. Sullivan and Adam Elkus -
The military, facing a complex and intractable mixture of “wicked problems” on the battlefield, has responded with a doctrinal revolution in the production and practice of operational theory.  But most police agencies don’t incorporate the “operational level of maneuver” into their planning and concept of operations.   We face [...]

The Homeland Security Council: End of an Experiment?

On January 10, 2009, in Original Analysis, by admin

By M. Powell, Ph.D. -
In the past few months, the debate over the continued need to maintain a separate Homeland Security Council  (HSC) in addition to the National Security Council (NSC), and their respective staffs, has reached a crescendo. The HSC and the NSC and their staffs are supposed to work in parallel, but critics [...]