Analysis Of Homeland Defense And The National Guard

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Introduction
The general topic for this literature review will be an examination of the Department of Defense and the National Guard in terms of Homeland Security. The areas of Homeland Defense and Civil Support will be primary subsections of Homeland Security which will be reviewed. For purposes of defining a time period none of the literature reviewed will be prior to September 11, 2001. The reasoning for this being to examine Homeland Defense using literature pertaining to 9/11 and the Boston Marathon Bombing, and Civil Support using literature pertaining to Hurricane Katrina.
The trend for this literature review topic is to discuss the benefits and shortcomings of the Department of Defense and National Guard in regards to Homeland Security. There is some controversy concerning duties that the National Guard can perform in respect to Homeland Defense and Civil Support which will be appraised.
The sequence of this literature review will start with The Department of Homeland Security. Additionally an analysis of the National Guard including a brief insight into its foundation followed by the equipment and facilities that it has at its disposal. Subsequent will be information belonging to Homeland Defense with literature reviews of several sources pertaining to 9/11 and the Boston Marathon Bombing. The second point of the main body will then be Civil Support with reviews relevant to Hurricane Katrina. The researcher will stick with a chronological examination of events pertaining to the proposed topic of the National Guard of benefits that it brings to the area of Homeland Security.
National Guard Background
According to Major General Lowenberg in The Role of the National Guard in National Defense and Homeland Security (2005...

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...e Katrina, and the Boston Marathon Bombing show that the National Guard has a record of being there when you need them to be and being able to perform under strenuous conditions.
For the purpose of this literary review the above incidents show a history of reliability when it comes to the National Guard. They are willing to act on facets of both state and federal orders and are able to maintain an organized hierarchy when doing so. The National Guard will be ready to respond due to being “forward-deployed in thousands of communities across the United States” (CNGR 2008, 9). Once again the National Guard Bureau outlines this in ten points: aviation and airlift, command and control, CBRNE response, engineering, medical, communications, transportation, security, logistics, and maintenance (NGB 2008, 7). All of which are significant when it comes to emergency response.

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