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Suicide bombers are often compared to smart bombs. Suicide bombers are in fact smarter than smart bombs because they can choose their own target-and they can react to circumstances on the ground, changing their target, or their timing, in an instant, to ensure the maximum damage, destruction, and death.

The London Controlling Section (LCS) devised an elaborate two-part plan called Operation Fortitude that SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force) helped to fine tune and that both British and American forces implementedHistorians analyzing the Normandy invasion frequently devote some discussion to Operation Fortitude.

Begins its examination with the US Government's campaign to instigate a war with Spain and ends with a review of the methods it is using to encourage support for the 'War Against Terrorism.' This book analyses each of these wars within the context of the techniques that the government used to generate public support.

This book is for typical American families, business travelers, corporate executive management personnel, emergency first responders, school administrators, and local government officials responsible for public safety and emergency management. Americans are regularly bombarded with reports of disaster and tragedy in the daily news.

Allen examines the maritime counterproliferation activities of nations participating in the Proliferation Security Initiative, as set out in their Statement of Interdiction Principles.

This promise of democracy, set in the wider scope of Iranian Shi'i jurisprudence and practice, is set to elevate the largest segment of Iranian society-its educated and pro-American youth-to the forefront of Iranian politics. The Middle East is in crisis, and within every crisis lies opportunity.

An insider's account of official US efforts to prevent the theft or diversion of nuclear and radiological weapons that could be used by rogue nations or terrorist groups.

In the brief experience the world has had during the post-9/11 era. But comparatively little attention has been paid on the key global security issues facing the world: that between and among the United States, Russia, and China. This book examines key security issues from the perspectives of those three powers.

Living in the shadow interior of the brain's limbic system and invisible to the untrained eye, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can not only torture its victims for a lifetime, but often reaches beyond its victims to negatively influence family members and loved ones. This work conveys the symptoms of PTSD in non-technical language.

This 30th anniversary edition of a highly acclaimed classic covers the entire span of the American naval experience from the Revolution to the present. Each essay about the navy in war concludes with an assessment of the importance of naval operations to the outcome of the war and the significance of the war to America's role in world affairs.

A revealing examination looks at the decision-making in four NATO capitals about waging war in Kosovo and Iraq.

While many people are aware that women are actively serving in the US armed forces, few understand what exactly is expected of women in the military, the duties they perform, and the limitations and restrictions placed on them, especially in a combat zone. This book reveals much about its subjects.

This volume provides a concise introduction to the issues and debates regarding modern piracy, including naval operations, law, and diplomacy, and focuses on the recent surge of attacks off the coasts of Africa and Asia.

Valone has selected 71 documents that have either defined America's place in the world or reflected a significant episode in the history of U.S. foreign affairs.

Fascinating case studies on hackers who have been caught and convicted of their crimes, as well as those betrayed by their peers, offer a unique, credible understanding of what makes hackers tick.

This book is comprised of essays by nationally recognized scholars and public figures who urge a reassessment of the impact of the nuclear winter hypothesis on current ideas of nuclear deterrence, limited nuclear war, and war fighting doctrines.

New political interests also exist with the recent emergence of a new panoply of independent Pacific island states, extension of U.S. sovereignty to other Pacific islands, and new defense responsibilities in several states linked to the United States by free association. John C.

American politicians have long been troubled by the question of whether or not to deploy a national missile defense system. Politics, not technological proficiency, drives policy decisions. In effect, the debate has been a dialogue of the deaf and blind wherein each perceives only that which fits their predetermined views.

Since World War II, there have been no engagements between carrier air groups, but flattops have been prominent and essential in every war, skirmish, or terrorist act that could be struck from planes at sea.

Details the history, evolution, and changing relationship between the armed forces and civilian leadership in Mexico in the second half of the 20th century. This work draws from published and unpublished sources, military websites, and material obtained through information requests made directly through the secretariat of national defense.

Examines efforts to create effective Iraqi military, security, and police forces. Published in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., this work addresses one of most important elements for establishing stability in post-Saddam Iraq.

In this book, Daniel Kliman argues that the years following September 11, 2001, have marked a turning point in Japan's defense strategy.

Never Will We Forget deals with the most enduring and moving side of World War II, the personal side.

Presents evidence of a global political order on the verge of a historic power shift from West to East. This book contends that since the turn of the 21st century, the global 'War on Terror' has distracted the United States from the development of China and Russia drawing closer together in an alliance that may well displace American primacy.

This book is a counterpoint to the prevailing view that the United States is an imperialist nation that has violently pursued power in the world to advance its own narrow interests.

Exposes the broken Veterans Administration (VA) system that goes from the Washington boardroom to local treatment rooms to detail how all concerned - from the VA doctors to the vets themselves - compromise the VA system of medical care delivery and what needs to be done to make the necessary repairs.

This important work, edited by an expert on terrorism, focuses on the 21st-century struggle for strategic influence and ways in which states can neutralize the role of new media in spreading terrorist propaganda.

If the FBI asks local law enforcement agencies to interrogate Arab and Muslim men within their jurisdictions, may the Detroit Chief of Police decline to do so? Would allowing the federal government to insist on local assistance be an example of undesirable federal overreaching or desirable national uniformity? If the FBI engages in a Joint Terrorism Task Force with local law enforcement officials in Portland, Oregon, may Portland police officers ignore surveillance-limiting Oregon state laws that apply to them, but not to the FBI? May those officers be bound to secrecy and prohibited from telling their employers if their colleagues violate state law? If the city of Arcata, California, disapproves of powers the USA Patriot Act gives federal investigators, may it prohibit its law enforcement personnel from helping the FBI conduct investigations?Concern about the proper balance between federal and local authority reaches back to the founding of our nation. That discussion has been re-ignited by the shock waves generated on September 11, 2001, which profoundly challenged our understandings of various constitutional strategies established to prevent overreaching by the Federal government. Until now, the discussion about the impact of 9/11 on American law has paid little attention to federalism, a vertical check on the federal government that complements the horizontal checks created by the separation of powers of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches.Questions about the ability of state and local governments to make their own policy choices form an important subset of questions about how far the federal government can or should go in its antiterrorism efforts. Clashes between claims of national authority and claims of local autonomy raise political questions that play out within a framework of constitutional law. Terrorism, Government, and Law is designed to foster an important national conversation on this subject.

Argues that the future of the United States' influence abroad lies in whether non-Americans keep believing in the American dream. This book shows what the essence of America is to non-Americans, and why their opinions matter.

Toward the end of World War II, the commander of the Air Corps, General Henry Hap Arnold, remarked: Someday . The U.S. Air Force added cyberspace to its warfighting mission in December 2005, and the 8th Air Force was assigned operational responsibility for cyberspace in November 2006.