Gifs Pros And Cons

Recommendations and Conclusion With all the above discussed, it is possible to ascertain where the GFS presently stands in the face of terrorism, a threat that is undoubtedly evolving. When it comes to the protection of critical infrastructure, the GFS in particular, the United States forgot nothing and learned nothing from the 9/11 attacks. It is not surprising that the GFS is still vulnerable to the threat of terrorism because terrorism is constantly evolving. The evolution of terrorism calls for the evolution of policies, regulations, organizations, and strategies to bring about the increment of protection and security of the GFS. Terrorism has been in existence since time immemorial (Larabee, 2003) but it has stayed in existence up to

With the emphasis on these below, the US as a whole can say, "It learned something and forgot nothing" from the 9/11 attacks.

The Evolving threat (based on Kayla's paper) To start with, all the stakeholders in the GFS should understand that terrorism is an evolving threat. Therefore, all policies, regulations, organizations, and strategies meant to combat the threat should evolve accordingly. As seen earlier in the lessons learned section, pre-9/11, the US, as a whole, underestimated the capabilities and the gravity of international terrorists, especially their art of improvising. In history, the fall of the Roman Empire to its long-time enemies (Graetzer, 2013) and the fall of Napolean during the Moscow Campaign (Pesenson, 2006) were a direct result of underestimating the capabilities and the gravity of enemies. The Roman Empire and Napoleon got so confident in their security and forgot that their enemies’ tactics had evolved just like it was with the US in the pre-9/11 times. Even though many thought otherwise, the 9/11 attacks proved to the US that, just like other developed nations, the US was penetrable and vulnerable to international terrorism. The repeat of the horrific

However, homegrown terrorists like Omar Mateen, the San Bernardino shooters, to mention but a few, lived in US local communities, therefore, had neighbors, friends, landlords, etc. which call for local community involvement in the fight against this threat. It is a common phenomenon after an attack by these homegrown terrorists for people in local communities to come out and claim they knew something about the attacker. For example, recently when the Education Facilities, a subsector of GFS ( Department of Homeland Security, 2018) experienced an attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, many people, including a neighbor with a video of Nikolas Cruz doing target practice, came forward (Lori, Moriah, William, and Mark, 2018). As discussed earlier, one of the flaws that led to the 9/11 terrorist attacks but later addressed was the lack of inter-agency communication or information sharing between local, state, and federal agencies. However, the evolved threat now necessitates that communication is extended to members of the communities through community-oriented policing (Stamper, 2016). Through community-oriented policing, a cooperative relationship between the law and the community can be established where they both operate in tandem to