Impetus of the DHS
Case Study 1: Impetus of the DHS
Case Study 1: Impetus of the DHS
On September 11, 2001 the world changed in a matter of seconds. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was formed just 11 days after the attacks . The attacks on 9/11 put in motion of the forming of the DHS, but the attacks my Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City and the first attack on the world trade center didn’t cause a need for concern to form the DHS. These were all horrendous acts of terrorism, but it took the act of 9/11 to form the DHS.
I think that you have to look at the nature and the timing of the attacks in Oklahoma City and the first world trade center bombing to really determine why the DHS was formed after the attacks. The United States never really had a large-scale attack on US soil except for the attack on Pearl Harbor. The attacks though Oklahoma City and the world trade center were horrible, but they weren’t on such a large scale as the 9/11 attacks.
Timothy McVeigh and a small group of extremist came up with the idea to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, because they incidents that happened two years earlier in Waco, Texas . I think that this attack didn’t cause a dramatic effect as 9/11 because the thought was that Mr. McVeigh acted alone and he was an American so nobody thought that there was a need for a forming of an agency such as the Department of Homeland Security. This attack was still early in the terrorist threat in America. I think since he was an American no one thought much of it. At first they did think it was connected to the first world trade center attack, but later it was determined that it was not.
The first attack on the world trade center was an active of terrorism from someone who was not of American decent. This attack shocked the American people, because it was the first of its kind since Pearl Harbor. The attack didn’t kill many people, but it did show what terrorist were capable of doing. I don’t
Case Study 1: Impetus of the DHS
On September 11, 2001 the world changed in a matter of seconds. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was formed just 11 days after the attacks . The attacks on 9/11 put in motion of the forming of the DHS, but the attacks my Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City and the first attack on the world trade center didn’t cause a need for concern to form the DHS. These were all horrendous acts of terrorism, but it took the act of 9/11 to form the DHS.
I think that you have to look at the nature and the timing of the attacks in Oklahoma City and the first world trade center bombing to really determine why the DHS was formed after the attacks. The United States never really had a large-scale attack on US soil except for the attack on Pearl Harbor. The attacks though Oklahoma City and the world trade center were horrible, but they weren’t on such a large scale as the 9/11 attacks.
Timothy McVeigh and a small group of extremist came up with the idea to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, because they incidents that happened two years earlier in Waco, Texas . I think that this attack didn’t cause a dramatic effect as 9/11 because the thought was that Mr. McVeigh acted alone and he was an American so nobody thought that there was a need for a forming of an agency such as the Department of Homeland Security. This attack was still early in the terrorist threat in America. I think since he was an American no one thought much of it. At first they did think it was connected to the first world trade center attack, but later it was determined that it was not.
The first attack on the world trade center was an active of terrorism from someone who was not of American decent. This attack shocked the American people, because it was the first of its kind since Pearl Harbor. The attack didn’t kill many people, but it did show what terrorist were capable of doing. I don’t