The home front: the military mind and civil defense. (GAZETTE).(role of the military in civil defense)

QUIETLY OBSERVING THE smoking ruins of the World Trade Center in the immediate aftermath of the attack was a Vermont lawyer and two-star army general named Bruce Lawlor, who commands the Joint Task Force, Civil Support (JTF-CS), a little-known military unit based at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia.

With a staff of 90--including active-duty officers, reservists, members of the National Guard, and civilians--the task force, established in 1999 to coordinate the Pentagon's forces in cases of terrorism on U.S. soil, is the most visible spearhead yet for the growing involvement of U.S. ...

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