And not since the War of 1812 has a foreign threat to the American homeland been quite so palpable.

An unconventional and frightening assault on the American homeland has commenced.

It is almost universally assumed that the American homeland will never be completely secure.

The creation of a new military command to defend the American homeland has made the debate over the posse comitatus law more urgent.

There has been no war on the American homeland since the Civil War.

China has perhaps two dozen weapons capable of striking the American homeland.

The first campaign in the war to protect the American homeland was to impose an embargo - on our own economy.

Inevitably Americans began to look for ways to prevent a war in Europe from spreading to the American homeland.

And how many warnings that soon the target will be the one terrorists so long to see bloodied - the American homeland itself?

In this same sense, the American homeland is the planet.