The United States lacks the capability to effectively achieve whole nation situational awareness and accomplish intergovernmental, interagency, and multidisciplinary planning and response in the homeland. United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were established in the post-9/11 environment to address this issue, but they should now be reevaluated to ascertain whether they truly provide the appropriate framework to facilitate the nation's needs. This thesis contends ...