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The National Strategy For Homeland Security, July 2002
The first National Strategy for Homeland Security, published in July 2002, had three strategic objectives:
- Prevent terrorist attacks within the United States;
- Reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism; and
- Minimize the damage and recover from attacks that do occur.
The first National Strategy for Homeland Security helped to prepare our Nation for the work ahead in several ways by:
- providing direction to the federal government departments and agencies that have a role in homeland security,
- suggesting steps that state and local governments, private companies and organizations, and individual Americans could take to improve our security and offered incentives for them to do so, and
- recommending certain actions to the Congress.
In this way, the Strategy provided a framework for the contributions that we could all make to secure our homeland.
- Read the first National Strategy for Homeland Security, July 2002 (PDF, 90 pages – 2.8 MB)
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