Examples Of Threats To America's Homeland

Threats to America’s Homeland Since 2005, the Islamic group has exceeded doubling and the account of terrorism from this group has almost tripled. This growing terrorist army known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, ISIS, is becoming a threat not only to the east but to the American homeland as well. While approximately ninety percent of Americans “... view ISIS as a serious threat to U.S. national security, there remains confusion over the degree to which the group directly threatens the American homeland” (Gottlieb 2). As technology advances, terrorists are able to assimilate into our systems which can become a hazard to our people. There are both immediate and long-term risks to our country, military improvements being one of them.
Different martial organizations are a hazard to Americans: “Isis and al Qaeda pose an existential threat because they… “provoke domestic and global trends that endanger American values and way of life, and plan direct attacks against the U.S. and its partners” (Kagen et al. 14). Modern technology advances are giving Islamic terrorists an advantage on attacks. Drones are one of the newest military threats towards the United States Military. Because they are small, highly active, and low-cost, they pose the highest military threat. Currently, the United States military is attempting to detect the drones by listening for radio signals; however, because they are silent and programmed to carry out specific missions, it makes them much harder to find. As a matter of fact, “unmanned aircrafts are now ‘sufficiently inexpensive’ that the U.S. military must anticipate [that] some of them may be flown directly into U.S. troops or vehicles as part of an attack” (Lamothe 1). Since remote-control aircrafts are easy for anyone to lay their hands on, it can be difficult
their targets are both ‘near enemies’ and ‘far enemies’” (Gottlieb 2). Jihadis are Islamic militants who fight against the enemies of Islam. For example, “they [Islamic soldiers] use existing governments in the Muslim world and replace them with their own, and later... attack the West from a position of power to spread their ideology to all of humanity” (Kagen et al. 2). This is informing Americans about the way ISIS thinks and how much their religion affects what they are willing to do to have the most power. The mentality of these soldiers differs greatly than the mind of a normal human being. For example, aside from having assumptions of what will happen to them after they die, suicide bombers are not afraid of killing themselves; as a matter of fact, they know they will be satisfied with the amount of destruction they are making to the people and land around them. According from a daily newspaper in London, The Independent, psychological dangers like this are the “most shocking tactic of terrorists and insurgents… [and have] never been more commonplace than [they are] today.” Terrorists who perform suicide attacks use explosive gear to perform their action. Although what they wear can sometimes create suspicion, “One approach is to fill a duffel bag with roughly 60 pounds of explosives and iron