Terrorism: Broader Steps
plan of action
Read About 1787's Plan for Domestic Terrorism here
Read About 1787's Plan for Global Terrorism here
1787 will do whatever it takes to protect the United States of America against 21st century threats, and we will do so with a strategy that honors our nation’s values and ideals.
The U.S. Intelligence community is incredible. The players are not perfect – no organization made up of humans is – but our intelligence community is filled with committed patriots who sacrifice so much of themselves to keep this country safe. We owe every member of these organizations an enormous debt of gratitude.
In that spirit, we must increase our commitment to superior intelligence collection, information sharing, and surveillance. A seamless process of gathering, analyzing and sharing intelligence is critical to our national security. We must strengthen our analytic capabilities, and our agencies must be highly cooperative in sharing valuable information.
In our fight against global terrorism, we must continue to actively pursue and destroy terrorist cells before they can attack.
It’s imperative we actively combat the threat of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapon attacks by proliferation, rogue nations and terrorist organizations. Read more here.
Cyber-attacks, cyber-terrorism and cyber-espionage pose an increasingly significant risk to the U.S. This threat is more ominous now that we have become increasingly reliant on technology, and information technology and physical infrastructure have become so interconnected.
We must have a comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy that thoroughly protects everything from our infrastructure to our intelligence databases. Read more here.
The U.S. must take a comprehensive, multi-faceted approach to securing our borders. Read more here.
The U.S. must make smart decisions about protecting our physical infrastructure. Read more here.
The U.S. must strengthen our public health infrastructure and be certain that our public health system has the wherewithal to cope with the physical and psychological (emotional, behavioral and cognitive) consequences of a conventional, biological, chemical or radiological attack on the United States. Read more here.
For decades, the United States has allowed terrorist organizations to negatively frame America for the Muslim world. We must reframe this highly damaging, globally destructive narrative immediately. Read more here.
Although most terrorist activities are not existential threats, attacks can be extremely disruptive, can kill American citizens in small numbers, and can take a tremendous physical and psychological toll on our society.
Therefore, the most important thing we as citizens can do is to continue to strengthen our resilience. Bad things will happen on occasion and, as a society, we need to have the capacity to quickly absorb the event, recover from it and move forward. Read more here.
It’s imperative we create public registries of the real owners of companies and/or trusts to bring transparency to the complex world of global finance.