The new era in U.S. national security : challenges of the information age / Jack A. Jarmon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jarmon, Jack A., 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--United States.

National security.

United States.

United States--Military policy.

Military policy.

Civil defense--United States.

Civil defense.

Terrorism--United States--Prevention.

Terrorism.

Weapons of mass destruction.

Computer networks--Security measures.

Computer networks.

Arms control.

Terrorism--Prevention.

Physical Description:

xiii, 362 pages : illustrations, charts, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Challenges of the information age

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]

Summary:

The New Era in U.S. National Security focuses on the emerging threats of the second decade of the 21st century, well after 9/11, and well into the age of globalization. It is a thorough, technically competent, survey of the current arena of conflict and the competition for political and economic control by state and non-state actors. Starting with the current national security establishment, it discusses the incompatibility between the threats and the structure organized to meet them. It then looks at the supply chain, including containerization and maritime security as well as cybersecurity, terrorism, and transborder crime networks. The last section of the book focuses on existing industrial and defense policy and the role the private sector can play in national security. Pulling together different areas, such as the logistics of the supply chain, the crime-terrorist nexus, and cyberwarfare, the book describes the landscape of today's new battlefields. It shows how the logistics of asymmetrical warfare, the rise of the information age, the decline of the importance and effectiveness of national borders, the overdependence on fragile infrastructures, and the global reach of virtual, paramilitary, criminal, and terrorist networks have created new frontlines and adversaries with diverse objectives. This core text for international security, strategy, war studies students is technical yet accessible to the non-specialist. It is a timely and comprehensive study of the realities of national security in the United States today"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The national security establishment

Policies and process in the new geopolitics

Irregular warfare and information age weapons

Conflict and Economics

A vast and contested domain

Cyperspace and conflict

China

Russia

The maritime supply chain

Politics, crime, and terror

Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats.

Notes:

"First edition 2014"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-351) and index.

ISBN:

9781538121597

153812159X

9781538121603

1538121603

OCLC:

1107875332