The Defense Department should elevate the importance of its homeland-security mission to make it equal with warfighting as a means of ensuring that Pentagon planners set aside enough forces to support civil authorities in the aftermath of a catastrophe on U.S. soil with chemical, biological, or nuclear agents, according to a commission chartered by Congress. Despite DOD's claims in the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review that homeland security is a key mission, there is “inadequate provision” for a task known as...
