60 Homeland Security Blogs
As other people who write for Homeland Security Watch note, the term “homeland security” covers a lot of territory.
It’s becoming increasingly apparent to me that one’s consciousness of the thing called homeland security emerges as one’s stove-piped mind dissolves.
The stove pipes are not built simply from one’s profession or jurisdiction. They are also formed from values, ideas and language.
I can say that another way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was on the right track when he wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
I think effective homeland security people (and you know who you are) can hold way more than two opposing ideas and still function.
It doesn’t mean you don’t hold on a bit more tightly to one or two favorite ideas. It does mean you recognize other people you work with have their own favorite ideas. You can spend time in a urinating contest about whose ideas are right. Or you can tap into your emerging homeland security consciousness and get the work done.
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But this partially formed claim is not what I wanted to write about today.
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There is a lot of data, information, knowledge and even some wisdom in homeland security. Some of it is hiding within the Internet.
Here is a list of 60 places where I have found — at one time or another – surprising, thoughtful, opinionated, challenging, funny, creative, outrageous, factual, irritating, or insightful ideas about homeland security.
They’ve sometimes also been the source of wrong, petty, or stupid ideas.
But, on occasion, so have I.
The list does not include every homeland security-related blog. I excluded blogs whose style seemed more institutional than human. But if you don’t find your favorite homeland security Thoughtful Spot in this list, please let us know. The homeland security mind always has room for another opposing idea.
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- AWARE
- Armchair Generalist
- CNAS Natural Security Blog
- Computerworld: Security
- Counter Terror Forum
- Counterterrorism Blog
- Danger Room
- Democracy Arsenal
- Digital Identity Forum
- Disaster Zone
- Domestic Preparedness
- FAS Strategic Security Blog
- Flu News Blog
- Flyer Talk on Travel Security
- Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
- FP Passport
- Get Ready for Flu Blog
- Global Guerrillas
- H5N1
- Hatewatch (Southern Poverty Law Center )
- Heritage National Security Blog
- Homeland Security Digital Library Blog
- Homeland Security News
- Homeland Security Newswire
- Homeland Security Watch
- Homeland Stupidity
- In Case of Emergency Break Glass
- In Case of Emergency Read Blog
- In General Counsel
- In Homeland Security
- Incident.blog
- Interoperability Streams
- James Fallows
- John Brown’s PD Review
- Law and Terrorism
- Liberty conspiracy
- Long War Journal
- Losantiville
- National Immigration Forum
- National Terror Alert
- No Quarter
- Open Source Data Base
- Operational Risk Management
- Perspective Intelligence
- Pump Handle
- Recovery Diva
- Schneier on Security
- Scott McPherson’s Web Presence
- Secrecy News
- Security Debrief
- Superstrain
- Terror Finance Blog
- Think Progress
- Thomas P.M. Barnett
- Threat Level
- Threats Watch
- TomDispatch
- TSA Blog
- Vacation Lane Blog
- Zero Intelligence Agents
