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Terrorism, asymmetric warfare, and weapons of mass destruction : defending the U.S. homeland /
New threats require new thinking. State attacks involving long-range missiles or conventional military forces are not the only threat to the U.S. homeland. Covert attacks by state actors, state use of proxies, independent terrorist and extremist attacks by foreign groups or individuals--and even by...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Westport, CT :
Praeger,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Changing face of asymmetric warfare and terrorism
- Risk assessment : planning for "non-patterns" and potential risk
- Threat prioritization : seeking to identify current and future threats
- CTypes of attack : determining future methods of attack and the needed response
- Threat assessment and prioritization : identifying threats
- U.S. government efforts to create a homeland defense capability
- Federal efforts by department and agency
- Federal, state, and local cooperation
- How other nations deal with these threats
- Lessons from recent major commissions on terrorism
- Conclusions and recommendations.