David H. Mcintyre

How to Think about Homeland Security: Risk, Threats, and the New Normal (eBook, ePUB)

Volume 2

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Risk, Threats and the New Normal explains the new political and technological developments that created new domestic national security threats against the nation and the people of the United States. The book traces the development of and competition between national preparedness (focused on people and property), and civil defense / security (focused on the defense of systems and infrastructure) since the latter days of World War I. Extensive policy research demonstrates a shift in federal (and hence state and local) focus over the last decade from WMD based Threats at the National Security Level (TNSL) back to more traditional hazards and disasters. A framework is offered to analyze and evaluate TNSL dangers to national power; it is applied to a case study involving a nuclear attack. Recommendations are offered to mitigate or prevent the potentially catastrophic aftermath. In Vol 3 this analysis will be extended to other TNSL events (chemical, biological, radiological, etc.) and the actors who must prepare for them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538125786
• Artikelnr.: 57938883

Autorenporträt

Dr. David H. McIntyre has been writing, teaching, and presenting on National Security and Homeland Security issues for 30 years. He has taught for 20 semesters at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Before that he was Deputy Director of the ANSER Institute for Homeland Security in Washington, DC (the first think tank focused on HS). Colonel McIntyre (USA, Retired) began those duties after a 30 year career in the United States Army, where he served in airborne and armored cavalry units, wrote and taught strategy and retired as the Dean of Faculty and Academics at the National War College.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures, Tables, and Textboxes Foreword by General Ralph Eberhart
Acknowledgments About This Series Introducing the Concept of Frameworks:
Thinking About Thinking About Homeland Security Part I: Thinking About Risk
1.Threat, Preparedness and Defense: A History of Adapting to a New Normal
2.From Countering Terrorism to a Preparedness System: Rethinking Homeland
Security 3.The DHS Risk Management Process 4.Improving the Utility, and
Reducing the Risk, of Risk 5.Following the Clues: The Shifting Focus of
Risk Management 6.A Brother by Another Mother: Risk Management for Critical
Infrastructure Part II: Thinking About Threats 7.Not All MOMs Are Created
Equal: The TNSL Test 8.The Special Danger of Terrorism at the National
Security Level 9.The Nature, Character and Conduct of War 10.The Dangerous
Enigma of Terrorism 11. Terrorism as Criminal War Part III: Thinking About
the New Normal 12.A Framework for Thinking About Threats and the New Normal
13.Shall we Play a Game? (Preparedness and a Nuclear MOM) 14.From
Preparedness to National Defense (Nuclear TNSL MOM) 15.TNSL MOMs, Bad DADs,
and a Newer New Normal Index About the Author