State of Recovery : The Quest to Restore American Security After 9/11 / Barry Scott Zellen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zellen, Barry Scott, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--Technological innovations--United States.

National security.

National security--United States.

Terrorism--United States--Psychological aspects.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Foreword: innovation leads the way: from "long war" to longer peace / by Ambassador David T. Killion

Moore's law and the evolution of security technology

Information security in a world of cyber insecurity

Document fraud: from criminal to terrorist enterprise

Business continuity in dangerous times

Border security and the war on terror

Counterterrorism mentors: allied insights and lessons

Enhanced border surveillance for the post 9/11 world

Less lethal border security solutions: midway between "shout" and "shoot"

Securing the maritime front: protecting America's seaports

Securing the southern front

Securing the northern front

Air rage: aviation insecurity after 9/11

Truck bombing shifts into high gear

Underground tremors: securing the Metro

Courtroom violence and the war against the U.S. government

Black Sunday redux

Special delivery: letter-bombs continue to deliver a lethal message

Bracing for bioterror

Nuclear terrorism after 9/11: rethinking the unthinkable

Nuclear weapons and the war on terror: halting the spread

False alarm: Saddam, WMD, and the GWOT's first side show

Power vacuum: Saddam's fall and the rise of Iran

Nuclear ambitions: emergent ballistic missile threats

Securing the "high frontier: missile defense, from hype to hope

The axis of evil revisited: reflection and reassessment.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-307) and index.

ISBN:

9781441103246

1441103244

9781501300691

1501300695

9781441177889

1441177884

OCLC:

865508316