How Should The National Guard Be Employed for The Next National Disaster?
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Jara, Paul
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2020-12
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2020-12
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security
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Since Hurricane Katrina, military emergency managers have warned that military guidance does not adequately inform National Guard employment in large-scale, nationally significant disasters. The COVID-19 pandemic has turned this hypothetical assertion into a practical shortcoming. While there is very little debate that COVID-19 is a nationally significant natural disaster, there are still doctrinal obstacles to adjudicating the military’s responsibility to provide national, state, or local disaster assistance. The United States must be prepared for the next nationally significant threat. For the next COVID-threat there must be a way to adjudicate conversation between lead federal agencies, the DoD, and the National Guard in order to better source Guard resources for large-scale, complex disasters.
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Homeland Security Affairs Journal Special COVID-19 Issue
The article record may be found at https://www.hsaj.org/articles16380
The article record may be found at https://www.hsaj.org/articles16380
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Homeland Security Affairs Journal, Volume Volume 16 / 2020
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Jara, Paul. “How Should the National Guard Be Employed for The Next National Disaster?” Homeland Security Affairs 16, Article 16 (December, 2020) www.hsaj.org/articles16380.
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