The National Strategy For Homeland Security, July 2002

The first National Strategy for Homeland Security, published in July 2002, had three strategic objectives:

• Prevent terrorist attacks within the United States;
• Reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism; and
• Minimize the damage and recover from attacks that do occur.

The first National Strategy for Homeland Security helped to prepare our Nation for the work ahead in several ways by:

• providing direction to the federal government departments and agencies that have a role in homeland security,
• suggesting steps that state and local governments, private companies and organizations, and individual Americans could take to improve our security and offered incentives for them to do so, and
• recommending certain actions to the Congress.

In this way, the Strategy provided a framework for the contributions that we could all make to secure our homeland.

• Read the first National Strategy for Homeland Security, July 2002 (PDF, 90 pages – 2.8 MB)