Introduction to Homeland Security: Principles of All-Hazards Risk Management

Meets class requirements

You can find other texts with less blather from Nemeth and others. This book provides a decent reference to public documents that detail the same topics, and chronology of the development of today’s homeland security enterprise. But I found the authors’ political spin on DHS’ history from the first chapter a little distracting, which left me a bit skeptical about the remainder of the content.There are many inserts of external editorials which don’t serve a practical purpose from my perspective, and the insertion of “critical questions” seem arbitrary and disruptive to reading of the content, and could have been either removed, or incorporated in a better way from a formatting standpoint.

This is the second DHS Orientation Text Option I chose.

As described.