“Homeland Security will be the biggest government employer in the next decade or so,” predicts Steven David, chair of a graduate certificate program in homeland security at Johns Hopkins University. Noted the August 25 of USA Today: “Hundreds of community colleges, four-year universities and postgraduate programs have begun offering degrees and certificates in emergency preparedness, counterterrorism and security.”
To some extent, this proliferation in security-related courses reflects the fact that “many companies have added homeland security sectors, and those educated in the field are in demand,” continues the paper. But the most improtant factor, of course, if creation of a centralized “homeland security” monolith.
The Department of Homeland Security (not be confused with the Department of Defense, which supposedly had something to do with securing our homeland) directly sponsors numerous programs at elite schools nationwide. Among them is an 18-month highly selective program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. “We’re taking the best and the brightest and giving them additional education so they can go back to their cities and assume the highest positions, “ comments associated provost Paul Stockton.
Rather than studying computer technology, applied sciences and engineering, the “best and brightest” our nation produces, will be learning how to build and administer a garrison state.
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