Terrorist Threats

Terrorist threats have become more complex and diverse than before.

On June 6, [2018], an American Reaper drone killed four Islamic State fighters near Bani Walid, Libya, about 110 miles southeast of Tripoli, Libya’s capital. A week later, another Reaper killed a Qaeda operative 50 miles southeast of Bani Walid. Ten days later, in central Yemen, American airstrikes attacked Qaeda fighters in the contested central Hadramout region. (Schmitt, 2018, para. 28)
Retaliation has become a standard terrorist tactic. It is unconfirmed yet suspected through U.S. Intelligence Community activity that members of global terrorist groups have already entered U.S. soil by air, land, or sea.

Your Task:

Discuss some primary elements that constitute a strategic prevention model.
In your brief strategic prevention model, integrate some available U.S. resources, which include Department of Homeland Security; federal, state, and local law enforcement; and civilian stakeholders.

Helpful Hints: Start with these sources below to help respond to the assignment:

Countering the changing threat of international terrorism. (n.d.). Report of the National Commission on Terrorism, Pursuant to Public Law 277, 105th Congress. Retrieved from https://fas.org/irp/threat/commission.html. Search for the word prevent in the website.

Wright, P. D., Liberatore, M. J., & Nydick, R. L. (2006). A survey of operations research models and applications in homeland security. Interfaces, 36(6), 514-529, 617-618. Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.

Keeney, R. L., & von Winterfeldt, D. (2011). A value model for evaluating Homeland Security decisions. Risk Analysis: An International Journal, 31(9), 1470-1487. Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.

DHS. (2019). Department of Homeland Security strategic framework for countering terrorism and targeted violence. Retrieved from https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/19_0920_plcy_strategic-framework-countering-terrorism-targeted-violence.pdf.