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The new era in U.S. national security an introduction to emerging threats and challenges

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 con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jarmon, Jack A. 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham Rowman & Litlefield [2014]
Subjects:
National security > United States
Civil defense > United States
Terrorism > United States > prevention
Weapons of mass destruction
Computer networks > Security measures
Arms control
United States > Military policy
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: the establishment and the national security environment
  • The national security establishment
  • Policies and processes in the new geopolitics
  • Industrial age warfare and information age weapons
  • The new arena of conflict and economic competition
  • Part II: current, emerging, and impending threats and challenges
  • The maritime supply chain: vast, diverse, and anarchic
  • The gatekeeper's challenge
  • The cyber war: new battlefronts, old and new enemies
  • Cyber guerilla war
  • Terrorism versus crime
  • Building a global network
  • Chemical biological radiological and nuclear: the chemical threat
  • Chemical biological radiological and nuclear: the biological threat
  • Chemical biological radiological and nuclear: the radiological nuclear threat
  • Part III: policy implications and the public private partnership
  • Industrial policy and defense policy

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