Barry Scott Zellen

State of Recovery (eBook, PDF)

The Quest to Restore American Security After 9/11

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the decade that followed 9/11, technologies and technology policies became central to homeland security. For example, the U.S. erected new border defenses with remote sensors and biometric scanners, and deployed new autonomous air warfare capabilities, such as the drone program. Looking at efforts to restore security after 9/11, the work examines issues such as the rise in technology spending, the various scenarios of mass terror, and America's effort to ensure that future engagements will take place far from the homeland. Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iran's emergence as nuclear threat, and North Korea's acceleration of its missile program are analyzed along with the "axis of evil" and America's effort to create a ballistic missile shield to thwart this emerging threat to its security. By focusing on the technologies of homeland security rather than on cyber warfare itself, the work offers a unique and needed survey that will appeal to anyone involved with the study and development of homeland and strategic security.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441177889
• Artikelnr.: 48422861

Autorenporträt

Barry Scott Zellen is a senior research scholar at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, USA, where he is Director of the Project on Climate and Conflict and Editor-in-Chief of The Culture and Conflict Review and The Climate and Conflict Review journals. He has published several books, including State of Doom: Bernard Brodie, the Bomb, and the Birth of the Bipolar World (Continuum, 2011).

Barry Scott Zellen is the research director of the Arctic Security Project at the Center for Contemporary Conflict at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, where he is also the deputy editor of Strategic Insights.

Barry Scott Zellen is editor of the Strategic Insights Journal and the Culture and Conflict Review at the Naval Postgraduate School, where he also serves as research director of the Arctic Security Project.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Innovation Leads the Way: From 'Long War' to Longer Peace by Ambassador David T. Killion
Introduction
Part I: Technology to the Rescue
1: Moore's Law and the Evolution of Security Technology
2: Information Security in a World of Cyber Insecurity
3: Document Fraud: From Criminal to Terrorist Enterprise
4: Business Continuity in Dangerous Times
Part II. Securing our Borders
5: Border Security and the War on Terror
6: Counterterrorism Mentors: Allied Insights and Lessons
7: Enhanced Border Surveillance for the Post 9
11 World
8: Less Lethal Border Security Solutions: Midway Between 'Shout' and 'Shoot'
9: Securing the Maritime Front: Protecting America's Seaports
10: Securing the Southern Front
11: Securing the Northern Front
Part III Protecting The Populace
12 Air Rage: Aviation Insecurity After 9
11
13: Truck Bombing Shifts Into High Gear
14: Underground Tremors: Securing the Metro
15: Courtroom Violence and the War Against the U.S. Government
16: Black Sunday Redux
17: Special Delivery: Letter-Bombs Continue to Deliver a Lethal Message
18: Bracing for Bioterror
19: Nuclear Terrorism After 9
11: Rethinking the Unthinkable
Part IV: Ensuring our Survival: Thinking About the Unthinkable After 9
11
20: Nuclear Weapons and the War on Terror: Halting the Spread
21: False Alarm: Saddam, WMD, And the GWOT's First Side Show
22: Power Vacuum: Saddam's Fall and the Rise of Iran
23: Nuclear Ambitions: Emergent Ballistic Missile Threats
24: Securing the 'High Frontier': Missile Defense, from Hype to Hope
25: The Axis of Evil Revisited: Reflection and Reassessment
Bibliography
Index