Homeland Defense (HD) Purpose and Operational Framework
Homeland Defense (HD) Purpose and Operational Framework :
The purpose of HD is to protect against and mitigate the impact of incursions or attacks on sovereign territory, the domestic population, and defense critical infrastructure (DCI). In order to accomplish this, DOD HD objectives are to (1) identify the threat; (2) dissuade adversaries from undertaking programs or conducting actions that could pose a threat to the US homeland; (3) ensure defense of the homeland and deny an adversary's access to the nation's sovereign airspace, territory, and territorial seas; (4) ensure access to space and information; (5) protect DCI; (6) deter aggression and coercion by conducting global operations; (7) decisively defeat any adversary if deterrence fails; and (8) recover from any attack or incident. (JCS/DOD, Homeland Defense, 2007, p. I-6)
