Jack A. Jarmon

The New Era in U.S. National Security (eBook, PDF)

Challenges of the Information Age

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The purpose of The New Era in U.S. National Security: Challenges of the Information Age is to make its readers aware of how the tensions between opposing forces from above and below influence world events and shape U.S. national security institutions. The debt trap now being experienced by the developing world has unleashed global migration on a mass scale. In a world where market forces are politically unaccountable, crime will prosper, and its linkage to organizing social structures is organic. The nexus between corrupt politicians, transnational business, and cross-border crime pulls tighter. Meanwhile, the structures of global governance are immature. Differences of agreement over international norms and controls regarding the use of the Internet, and the laws pertaining to the deployment of cyber weapons are illusive - if not insurmountable. The chasm between the rich and poor is widening and deepening. Hostilities continue mount. In this book, Jack A. Jarmon offers a survey of the altering landscape of warfare and competition. Using recent events and documented experiences as examples, it reveals truths about the threat from criminals, terrorists, hostile governments, and internal vulnerabilities. The nation's exposure invites attack with every hour. Rather than an abstract threat, these unseen and unreported assaults land blows to our information networks, infrastructure, quality of life, and democratic system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881879631
• Artikelnr.: 74850077

Autorenporträt

Jack A. Jarmon has taught international relations at the University of Pennsylvania, the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University, and Rutgers University where he was also Associate Director of the Command, Control and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis - a Center of Excellence of the Department of Homeland Security (Science and Technology Division). During Russia's economic transition period, he was USAID technical advisor for the Russian Federation central government. He worked for the Russian Privatization Committee in the mid 1990s and with such organizations as the US Russia Investment Fund, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, and various money center banks.

Dr. Jarmon's private sector career includes global consultant firms, technology companies, and financial institutions. He was a manager with Arthur Andersen in Moscow and Director of Strategic Alliances at Nortel Networks, Brampton, Ontario. He studied Soviet and Russian affairs at Fordham University and the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. Jarmon is fluent in Russian and holds a doctorate degree in global affairs from Rutgers University.

Dr. Jarmon is the coauthor (with Bruce Newsome)of A Practical Introduction to Homeland Security and Emergency Management and The Cyber Threat and Globalization: The Impact on U.S. National and International Security (with Pano Yannakogeorgos).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. The National Security Establishment The United State and the
World Stage A Brief History of the Structure The New Reorganization
Budgeting, and Planning in Support of Policy Striking a Balance between
Domestic and Foreign Affairs Conclusion 2. Policies and Process and the New
Geopolitics Evolution of Strategy An Era of New Weaponry and Geopolitics
The Role of the Private Sector The Status and Future of DHS Conclusion 3.
Irregular Warfare and Information Age Weapons Asymmetric Warfare A World of
Weapons The Phenomenon of Social Media The Weaponization of Social Media
Audience Mapping, Targeted Messaging, and "Kompromat" The Weaponization of
Information Conclusion 4. Conflict and Economics Technology, the
Information Age, and the Costs of War Global Economics and Migration The
Rise of Kleptocracy Non-Asymmetric Warfare Conclusion 5. A Vast and
Contested Domain Information Technology vs Operational Technology National
Critical Infrastructure The Election Infrastructure Big Data Machine
learning Artificial Intelligence & Autonomous Weapons Systems Conclusion 6.
Cyberspace and Conflict What is Cyberspace? The Inception The
Militarization The Malware Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) The Onion
Router (TOR) The Deep and Dark Web Conclusion 7. China The Belt and Road
Initiative A Cyber Cold War "Kill with a Borrowed Sword" The Great Firewall
and the Great Cannon A Sprawling National Security Environment Conclusion
8. Russia Cold War 2.0 The Merger of Politics and Criminality Active
Measures and Cyberwarriors Ukraine, 2014 United States, 2016 Tactical
Nuclear Weapons Conclusion 9. The Maritime Supply Chain Vast, Diverse, and
Anarchic Containerization Targeting, Screening, Scanning, and Inspecting
Trusted Shippers and Layered Defenses Calculating the Dangers and the Risk
An Opaque and Expanding Environment Choke Points Conclusion 10. Politics,
Crime, and Terror Crime and Terrorism: Differences and Similarities Crime
and Terrorism: The Nexus West Toward Chechnya and Russia The Tri-Border
Area (TBA) Chinese Triads Conclusion 11. Chemical, Biological, Radiological
& Nuclear Threats Chemical Warfare Resurgence in Chemical Weapons Chemical
Agents Threats and Countermeasures Non-Terrorist Threats Biological Threats
Biological Agents Synthetic Biology Biosecurity Policy Radiological and
Nuclear Threats What is radioactivity? So, You Want to Build a Bomb? The
Dirty Bomb Alternative Controlling proliferation Conclusion