http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/obama-plan-unifies-defense-homeland-security-response?CID=examiner_alerts_article"The U.S. Secretary of Defense yesterday announced that he's agreed to a plan that will allow one military commander to be in charge of both State National Guard and each military branch's reserve forces when they are deployed to respond to domestic emergencies including terrorist attacks, according to Lisa Daniel of the American Forces Press Service.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, along with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and the Council of Governors -- a group President Barack Obama formed in January 2010 to represent all of the states' governors -- signed off on the agreement, known as the Joint Action Plan, during a March 1 Pentagon meeting, Ms. Daniel reported in a statement obtained by the 14,000-member National Association of Chiefs of Police.
According to the White House press office, the Council will be reviewing such matters as involving the National Guard units of the various States; homeland defense; civil support; synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States; and other matters of mutual interest pertaining to National Guard, homeland defense, and civil support activities.........."
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Continuity of Agenda Flashback
Obama is further fleshing out the emergent Federal security state apparatus pushed through by Bush
The Impact of Sept. 11, 2001, on the Unified Command Plan
http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/ucp-pr.cfm"May 22, 2002
On April 17, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers unveiled the long-anticipated changes to the Pentagon's Unified Command Plan (UCP). 1 The new UCP, which becomes effective Oct. 1, 2002, increases to 10 the number of combatant geographical and functional commands through which the U.S. military chain-of-command runs. 2 This April's changes now mean that the number of geographical "proconsuls" (as the Washington Post called the regional commanders in chief) equals the number of functional commanders.
The changes are the most significant since 1983, when the United States Central Command was carved out of the European and Pacific commands to provide a clearer focus on the Middle East and Gulf region. 3
The centerpiece of the reorganization is the creation of a Northern Command (NORCOM) whose mission is "defending the United States and supporting the full range of military assistance to civil authorities." 4 While this mission statement clearly reflects the influence of Sept. 11 on the UCP, it does not add any new missions for the Pentagon. As Myers noted, "the changes...merely consolidate existing homeland security duties now spread across several commands under one high-ranking general to coordinate the response......................."