Abstract
Today the United States is undergoing a great transformation in national security thinking and priorities. Between the end of the Cold War in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the country began to abandon the policy of containment and the strategy of deterrence that had governed American relations with the rest of the world for over four decades. For only the fourth time in its national history, the United States has been changing its national security policies and reconfiguring its military institutions to adapt to a new role in world politics. Once again, for a variety of reasons not least because of technologies Americans themselves pioneered, defense of the American homeland has become central to national security. Protecting the American people inside the United States is the most significant and perplexing of the changes underway in national defense. What should be-must be-the role of the military in homeland defense?
Recommended Citation
Kohn, Richard H.
(2003)
"Using the Military at Home: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,"
Chicago Journal of International Law:
Vol. 4:
No.
1, Article 12.
Available at:
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cjil/vol4/iss1/12