HOW SAFE ARE WE?

Reviewed 9/11/2026

How Safe Are We?, by Janet Napolitano

HOW SAFE ARE WE?
Homeland Security Since 9/11
Janet Napolitano & Karen Breslau
New York: PublicAffairs, 2019

Rating:

5.0

High

ISBN-13 978-1-54176222-0
ISBN-10 1541762223 215pp. HC $26.00

Table of Contents

  Introduction ix
PART I        The Mission
CHAPTER 1         What Have I Done? 3
CHAPTER 2         Earning My Calluses 20
CHAPTER 3         Mission Impossible? 47
CHAPTER 4         Freedom and Fear 70
PART II        What We Got Right
CHAPTER 5         Pushing Out the Border 91
CHAPTER 6         Shrinking the Haystack 105
CHAPTER 7         Zigging and Zagging 114
CHAPTER 8         "The System Worked" 129
PART III        Where We Need To Improve
CHAPTER 9         Connecting the Dots 147
CHAPTER 10         Black Swans and Oily Ducks 165
PART IV        Homeland Security in the Age of Trump
CHAPTER 11         Are We Safer? 179
CHAPTER 12         A Road Map 190
 
  Acknowledgments 203
  Note on Sources 205
  Index 207
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