Posted on May 15, 2015
Should Homeland Security ever grow into its own military branch?
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Odd question, but I have been wondering what it would be like for the Department of Homeland Security to become its own military branch - incorporating the cyber defense pieces. Thinking strategically, would this help better manage our national defense o just add expenses and bulk to the DoD that we don't have? What do you think?
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- Short answer: no. The Department of Homeland Security should not become its own military branch.
- The purpose of a police force is to protect society from the criminal element within society.
- The purpose of a military force is to defend society from enemies and external threats.
- The risk of using a military force as a police force is that they will tend to morph into seeing society as the enemy.
- With the above written, the United States should definitely used a layered defense. HLS and DoD must integrate, synchronize, and coordinate their efforts along with sharing their intelligence. HLS, however, is not and must never become a military branch.
- The purpose of a police force is to protect society from the criminal element within society.
- The purpose of a military force is to defend society from enemies and external threats.
- The risk of using a military force as a police force is that they will tend to morph into seeing society as the enemy.
- With the above written, the United States should definitely used a layered defense. HLS and DoD must integrate, synchronize, and coordinate their efforts along with sharing their intelligence. HLS, however, is not and must never become a military branch.
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No government innovation has worried me more than the establishment of Homeland Defense. It has come close to evolving into a secret police as I suspected that it might.
Am I paranoid? No, simply an observant citizen and student of American history. Look how the FBI and IRS have been employed to ferret out political opponents. Did anyone really think that Homeland Security wouldn't be used in a like manner?
Sadly, Homeland Security has grown in so large in power and budget, that it need only fear the established military to oppose it if it ever went rogue. Even sadder, that constraint is diminishing as the American military is downsized and state-based National Guard units are stripped of key resources (viz Apache helicopters).
Thus, I not only do not want to see Homeland Security grow, but also want to see it eliminated forthwith.
Am I paranoid? No, simply an observant citizen and student of American history. Look how the FBI and IRS have been employed to ferret out political opponents. Did anyone really think that Homeland Security wouldn't be used in a like manner?
Sadly, Homeland Security has grown in so large in power and budget, that it need only fear the established military to oppose it if it ever went rogue. Even sadder, that constraint is diminishing as the American military is downsized and state-based National Guard units are stripped of key resources (viz Apache helicopters).
Thus, I not only do not want to see Homeland Security grow, but also want to see it eliminated forthwith.
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SGT Anthony Bussing
I couldnt agree more!
"DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY" sounds an awful lot like "Committee for State Security" of which the KGB was a part of...
"DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY" sounds an awful lot like "Committee for State Security" of which the KGB was a part of...
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