Homeland Security Strategic Context & Nature of the Threat

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throughout this course, you will prepare a Key Assignment in the form of a comprehensive written case study analysis of a national-level policy that is reflected in and drawn from the National Southwest Border Counternarcotics (NSWBCN) Strategy (2011).

As dramatized in the movie Act of Valor, in which U.S. Navy Seals interdicted foreign terrorists attempting to smuggle jihadists from Mexico into the United States, this international border represents an acute vulnerability to national security, the region, and homeland security—making it a local, state, tribal, and federal flashpoint. Many analysts believe that if drug cartels can successfully smuggle illegal contraband via various conveyances across the Southwest border (SWB), and move billions of dollars of bulk cash back to operatives south of the border, then terrorist elements could exploit this same network for nefarious purposes.

This troubling premise matches the challenges of professional policymakers at local, state, and federal levels of the U.S. government, and provides the context for a salient examination of all elements of homeland security and the government.

You will focus on the NSWBCN Strategy for all aspects of the Key Assignment, resulting in the final written analysis that assembles each element of the course.

This assignment will initially involve the creation of a case study involving the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) being smuggled across the U.S. border with Mexico. This case study will serve as the operational scenario informing the balance of the project, and will evolve into a comprehensive analysis comprised of and supported by cumulative weekly assignments during each phase of the course, including a proposal to address the security challenges of this volatile border region.

Against the realistic backdrop of persistent criminal activity, including human smuggling, narcotrafficking, cross-border violence, movement of undocumented migrants, and law enforcement challenges, conduct your research using the NSWBCN Strategy (2011), promulgated by the White House and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).

Section 1: Strategic Context

Review the NSWBCN Strategy to understand its role in the national security and homeland security context, and examine the organization and logic of this current national-level policy so that you will eventually be able to provide the qualitative argument for why this document was directed by national leadership.

Draft a 2-page introduction to the Key Assignment project that includes the following:

  • Page 1: Highlight the strategic purpose for the NSWBCN Strategy, and identify why this purpose is a vital homeland security interest.
    • Identify the key sections of this national-level policy and items of significance to public and private homeland security analysts.
  • Page 2: Outline your initial case study. This case study will serve as the operational scenario informing future components to your Key Assignment and written analysis.
    • Describe the threat of WMD being smuggled across the Southwest border via the conveyance of your choice.
    • Include in your case study scenario an intelligence report of terrorist operatives attempting to join the movement of undocumented migrants and narcotics through tunnels or other means.
    • Include useful bibliographic references.

Section 2: Nature of the Threat

Identify the primary and secondary threats that are addressed by the NSWBCN Strategy, explaining why they were addressed by a comprehensive, fully-coordinated national policy. Provide the reader with the analytical basis for this document and the quantitative rationale for the definition of the threat.

Draft a 2-page formal memorandum from the ONDCP Director to the key stakeholders of the ICP within the interagency that includes the following:

  • Page 1: Highlight the unique all-threat environment that exists on the Southwest Border (SWB).
    • Identify the primary and secondary threats addressed in the strategy.
    • Outline your own case study, describing the threat of WMD being smuggled across the U.S. border with Mexico.
  • Page 2: Explain what specific facts from this region support the need for greater focus.
    • Detail what policies or resources you think are needed to address this focus. Include useful bibliographic references.

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The National Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy is an integral part of the
United States' comprehensive approach to factors that pose threats through the southwest border.
This strategy supports the federal government's push for increased resources, personnel, and
technology to the Southwest border, as well as to enhance American-Mexican alongside the
national attempts to lower home demand for illicit drugs. This paper highlights the strategic
context and nature of threats addressed in the document.
Strategic Context
Strategic Purpose and Its Importance to Homeland Security
The NSWBCN's strategic purpose is to lower the entry of drug money, illicit drugs, as
well as all other related tools of violence through the Southwest border. This strategic purpose is
critical to homeland security since it seeks to ensure that the flow of persons and products
through the SWB, does not pose a threat to the rest of America, which would even pose a more
significant challenge to security departments and law enforcing agency. The border covers
several miles and borders four American states which include, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, and
California hence is a common migratory route for immigrants into the United States (ONDCP,
2011). Therefore, being a potential drug rout into the United States, as well as several
unsanctioned individuals into the country, homeland security takes keen interest to prevent an
even more significant threat through the proliferation of WMDs or the entry of terrorists.
Key Sections
The first critical section of the NSWBCN Strategy to security analysts is the Intelligence
and Information Sharing chapter. To successfully manage the challenges posed by the extensive
SWB the private and public sectors must work in tandem, sharing critical information with all
relevant parties through border based fusion centers from the tribal level through to the national

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level (ONDCP, 2011). Through sharing border traffic control can easily be enhanced. Secondly,
technology is a critical section in the strategy since it offers a che...


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