On a long enough timeline structure poisons creativity and awareness.

It is important to realize and anticipate the functional limitations of strategy. There are only so many preventative measures that can be articulated. Homeland Security has been broadened and deepened to the point where everything is a potential weapon, and a potential resource. Making a commitment to improve preparedness and response capabilities will require an investment in professional autonomy, skepticism, and flexibility. Friction between the established strategic Homeland Security vision and an adaptive approach based on individual awareness is inventible. The innate complexity and danger present in the new interdependent global milieu places a disproportionate strain on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to differentiate between ephemeral and enduring considerations. Accordingly, emphasis should be placed on supplementing effective local participation in Homeland Security. People are going to be the difference makers, not acronyms. Organizational culture needs to be updated to prevent the caustic influence of mutually exclusive identities. Otherwise, most ideas, social constructions, and prevailing paradigms will outlive their usefulness. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]