DTIC ADA430487: Responding to the Unthinkable. The pdf

DTIC ADA430487: Responding to the Unthinkable. The

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The Third Annual USAWC Reserve Component Workshop was held 28-30 September 2004 at the Collins Center, Carlisle Barracks Pennsylvania. There were 106 participants from local, state, and federal civilian agencies as well as a number of leaders from the Active and Reserve (Army National Guard and the Army Reserve) military components. This workshop series, initiated to explore issues regarding the Army’s Reserve Components and their role in National Security as portrayed in Army wargames and exercises, focused on responding to a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, or High yield Explosive (CBRNE) attack on the Homeland. Previous workshops framed general issues of strategic concern for the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve while also examining how well those issues had or had not been represented in key Army simulation exercises. This year’s workshop represented a narrowing of focus to cover a special c area of signi cant concern the possibility of the unthinkable happening within the next few years, but at the same time it also widened the scope by focusing on an issue that involves the Reserve Components but is not Reserve Component centric.

For many of the world s security specialists it is no longer a question of if, but only when, terrorists will successfully strike an internal American target with a weapon of mass destruction. Accordingly, the purpose of the workshop was to review the possible roles of Army Active Component and Reserve Component forces acting along with local, state, and federal responders from critical agencies throughout government to react following CBRNE attacks inside the United States of America. Participants were tasked to consider the potential expansion of the military s role in the National Response Plan and to look for planning, policy, and procedural improvements that would enhance and synchronize CBRNE responses

• Creator/s: Defense Technical Information Center
• Date: 11/1/2004
• Year: 2004
• Book Topics/Themes: DTIC Archive, McNary, Jeffrey, ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA CENTER FOR STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP, *NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS, NUCLEAR WARFARE, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, TERRORISTS, RESPONSE, WAR GAMES, WORKSHOPS, HIGH EXPLOSIVES, HOMELAND SECURITY

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