ABSTRACT
Domestic security refers to the government’s effort to prevent, identify, and respond to threats, attacks, or other countless dangers to the United States. Although domestic security is used interchangeably with national or homeland security, there are slight distinctions between the terms. In the month after 9/11, Congress passed the Act to enhance domestic security against terrorism, border security, and money laundering and to increase surveillance. The United States continues to enjoy a degree of domestic security in the decade and a half after 9/11. Disasters have wreaked havoc on several regions in the United States, causing great concern for domestic security. In a report on national security, the Pentagon recognized climate change as a threat multiplier that can impact America’s economy and resources and initiate an instable society through hunger, famine, poverty, and other unforeseen catastrophes.
