terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan, and conducted a coalition war
against Serbian forces in Kosovo. He also became a global proponent
for democracy, an expanded North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO), more open international trade, and a worldwide campaign
against drug trafficking.COAST GUARD. The nation’s premier maritime agency, the Coast
Guard is an amalgam of five historical federal units that over time
have come to be united under the Coast Guard umbrella: the Revenue
Cutter Service, the Lighthouse Service, the Steamboat Inspection
Service, the Bureau of Navigation, and the Lifesaving Service.
The Coast Guard has traditionally performed two roles in wartime.
The first has been to augment the navy with men and cutters. The sec-
ond has been to undertake special missions, including the enforce-
ment of boating safety regulations, search and rescue, maintenance of
aids to navigation, enforcement of merchant marine safety regula-
tions, environmental protection, enforcement of customs, fisheries,
and immigration laws, and port safety. In wartime, the Coast Guard
performs port security, ship escort, and transport duty as part of the
U.S. Navy. In peacetime, the Coast Guard is part of the Department
of Homeland Security(DHS) and an independent member of the in-
telligence community (IC).COBRA DANE (SYSTEM). Aphased-array radar deployed in 1977 that
was intended to acquire precise data on the system characteristics of
Sovietballistic missile weapons. Located on the northwestern section
of Alaska’s Shemya Island, the radar, the responsibility of air force in-
telligence,surveillance, and reconnaissanceis part of the Integrated
Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment network. It can track a bas-
ketball-size object at a range of 2,000 miles. It can also track up to 300
incoming warheads and up to 200 satellites. COBRADANE also has
a space-object tracking and identification mission, providing warning
of all Earth-impact objects, including ballistic missiles on the United
States. As such, it is an integral part of the Measurement and Signa-
ture Intelligence (MASINT) technique of intelligence collection.COINTELPRO (OPERATION).COINTELPRO is the Federal Bu-
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