Jan 30 2009
Governor Strickland’s State of the State Address
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Archive for January, 2009
Jan 23 2009
Capstone Concept for Joint Operations
Greta Marlatt posted the following:
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ADM Mullens, has signed off on and released the latest version of the “Capstone Concept for Joint Operations” [ver. 3.0 19 January 2009]. The report is available at http://www.jcs.mil/090115CAPSTONEConceptJointOps.pdf
The press release is available at
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=52773
This is the first update since August 2005
“The capstone concept details the main security challenges facing the joint force: winning the nation’s wars, deterring adversaries, developing cooperative security, defending the homeland and responding to civil crises.”
Greta E. Marlatt
Information Services Manager &
Homeland Security Digital Library Content Team Manager Dudley Knox Library Naval Postgraduate School
Jan 15 2009
Pandemic Influenza Report
The House Homeland Security Committee released a majority staff report today indicating the country is not ready for Pandemic Flu. The report is entitled “Getting Beyond Getting Ready for Pandemic Influenza” and is available at http://homeland.house.gov/SiteDocuments/20090114124322-85263.pdf
According to the press release, the report “examines the Nation’s state of preparedness and response capabilities in the event of a pandemic influenza outbreak. It identifies sixteen weaknesses in the outgoing Bush Administration’s approach to get prepared for pandemic influenza.
In addition, the report provides fifteen critical recommendations for what Congress, the incoming Administration, and the public and private sectors can do to achieve National readiness to combat this threat.”
Jan 14 2009
Arctic Region Policy
The Bush Administration has issued its new Arctic Region Policy directive as National Security Presidential Directive 66/Homeland Security Presidential Directive 25 at
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2009/01/20090112-3.html
Jan 09 2009
Task Force on Nuclear Weapons Management
Two reports have been issued by the Task Force:
Phase I: Air Force’s Nuclear Mission [Sept 2008] can be found at http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/phase_i_report_sept_10.pdf
Phase II: Final report – Review of the DoD Nuclear Mission can be found
at http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/PhaseIIReportFinal.pdf
