دانلود کتاب State of Recovery: The Quest to Restore American Security after 9/11

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Cover\nHalfTitle\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nForeword\n Innovation Leads the Way: From “Long War” to Longer Peace\nAbbreviations\nIntroduction\nPart I Technology to the Rescue\n 1 Moore’s Law and the Evolution of Security Technology\n Technology and security after 9/11\n Technology spending on the rise\n Biometrics to the rescue?\n The vision thing\n The magic of Moore’s Law\n Not yet ready for prime time\n The biometrics of tomorrow\n 2 Information Security in a World of Cyber Insecurity\n Where fiction and reality collide\n The rising tide of cyber warfare\n Enhancing security, ignoring hype\n The battle against identity theft heats up\n 3 Document fraud: From criminal to terrorist enterprise\n Closing terrorism’s revolving door\n 4 Business continuity in dangerous times\n Beyond data protection\n Unpredictable nature\n A time for leadership\nPart II Securing Our Borders\n 5 Border security and the war on terror\n The northern front\n The southern front\n Technology and the war on terror\n Biometrics on the border\n Physical barriers and perimeter defenses\n 6 Counterterrorism mentors: Allied insights and lessons\n Lessons from the Holy Land: Israeli insights on secure borders\n Lessons from the “scariest place on earth”: For over a half century, technology has tamed the Korean DMZ\n Eye-to-eye across the DMZ\n No ordinary border\n A tense no-man’s land\n Quantity versus quality\n Defensive layers and defensive topology\n Mines\n Artillery\n Aerial surveillance\n The missile threat\n Improved C4I\n The WATCHCON system\n Biochem sensors\n Sensor wars\n DoD’s UAV roadmap\n DMZ as electronic metaphor\n Rethinking electronic barriers\n Lessons from the lion city: Singapore takes the lead on nformation awareness, risk assessment, and horizon scanning\n The spirit of TIA\n Singapore shows the way forward\n The Strategic Framework for National Security\n RAHS 1.0: Fostering anticipation and collaboration\n RAHS 2.0\n 7 Enhanced border surveillance for the post-9/11 world\n Short- and medium-range surveillance\n Long-range border surveillance\n Space Based Radar\n Platform stabilization and integration\n Automated versus manned surveillance systems\n Surveillance beyond borders\n UAVs and pervasive surveillance\n Toward netcentric warfare\n 8 Less lethal border security solutions: Midway between “shout” and “shoot”\n NLW technology and the post–Cold War era\n Between shout and shoot\n A safer alternative to deadly force\n A death in Boston\n FN 303s on the border\n Despite saving lives, NLWs come under fire\n 9 Securing the maritime front: Protecting America’s seaports\n The Container Security Initiative\n IT on the border\n New funding for port security\n Maritime security through multilateralism\n The long journey toward secure ports and maritime borders\n Inter-American collaboration\n 10 Securing the Southern Front\n Immigration, homeland security, and the border fencing debate\n Minutemen to the rescue\n Momentum builds for a fence\n Shutting down America\n Potential for a backlash\n Political complexity\n Aiming for middle ground\n Voting with their feet\n Drug war threatens to engulf southern front\n Roots of chaos\n Technology to the rescue\n More work to be done\n Pipeline terror on the rise across the Americas\n 11 Securing the Northern Front\n Securing the northern border: UAVs to the rescue\n Securing America’s “last frontier”\n What if? Alaska pipeline security after 9/11\n Shooting the pipeline: the 2001 incident\n Securing the pipeline: The 2006 terror threat\n Alaska’s isolation: Security or vulnerability\n Oil as a global, strategic target\n After 9/11\n Budgetary realities\nPart III Protecting the Populace\n 12 Air Rage: Aviation Insecurity after 9/11\n Private aircraft face increased security as TSA tackles general aviation sector\n The lingering liquid bomb threat\n 13 Truck Bombing Shifts into High Gear\n From Beirut to Baghdad\n Historical VBIED trends\n DHS responds with frequent advisories and bulletins\n An elusive shield?\n 14 Underground Tremors: Securing the Metro\n 15 Courtroom Violence and the War against the US Government\n 16 Black Sunday Redux\n Olympic security in an age of mass terror\n Lessons of Beijing 2008\n 17 Special Delivery: Letter-Bombs Continue to Deliver a Lethal Message\n 18 Bracing for Bioterror\n Al Qaeda’s agriterror ambition\n Toward a bioterrorism surveillance system\n Bioterror reboot\n 19 Nuclear Terrorism Post-9/11: Rethinking the Unthinkable\n The age of mass casualty terror\n Preparing for the unthinkable\n The fog of peace\n The gathering threat—Al Qaeda’s nuclear ambition\n Preventing the unthinkable\n The continuing WMD threat\nPart IV Ensuring Our Survival: Thinking about the Unthinkable after 9/11\n 20 Nuclear Weapons and the War on Terror: Halting the Spread\n Operation Iraqi Freedom\n Rethinking the unthinkable\n The Global War on Terror\n The logic of preemption\n Preemption in action\n Nuclear ambiguity\n 21 False Alarm: Saddam, WMD, and the GWOT’s First Sideshow\n The First Gulf War: A US-Iraq axis\n The Second Gulf War: Axes to grind\n The Third Gulf War: The Axis of Evil\n The Fourth Gulf War: A “Final Act”?\n 22 Power Vacuum: Saddam’s Fall and the Rise of Iran\n After Saddam, chaos\n Containing Iran\n Blaming Iran\n Iran denials\n 23 Nuclear Ambitions: Emergent Ballistic Missile Threats\n As Tehran marches closer to the nuclear club, its neighbors anxiously await the world response\n North Korea’s emergent ballistic missile threat\n Appeasing the DPRK?\n Sanctioning sanctions\n The return of Japanese militarism and the specter of a nuclear Japan\n An end to Japanese pacifism\n Overhyping the DPRK missile threat; echoes of the “missile gap”?\n Toward a political solution?\n 24 Securing the “High Frontier”: Missile Defense, from Hype to Hope\n A quarter century after Ronald Reagan unveiled his “Star Wars” vision, ballistic missile defense is ready for action\n 25 The Axis of Evil Revisited: Reflection and Reassessment\n Origins of the Axis\n Driven by hatred, not evil\n Axis critics\n Axis subtleties\n From simplicity to complexity\n From Axis of Evil to Axes of Evil\nBibliography\nIndex