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The second edition of The New Era offers students and instructors a whole cloth, insightful perspective on the dynamic, changing patterns and orientations unleashed by the processes of globalization, technology, and the emerging "Second Cold War" era.
List of contents
Preface
1. The National Security Establishment
The United State and the World Stage
A Brief History of the Structure
The New Reorganization
Budgeting, and Planning in Support of Policy
Striking a Balance between Domestic and Foreign Affairs
Conclusion
2. Policies and Process and the New Geopolitics
Evolution of Strategy
An Era of New Weaponry and Geopolitics
The Role of the Private Sector
The Status and Future of DHS
Conclusion
3. Irregular Warfare and Information Age Weapons
Asymmetric Warfare
A World of Weapons
The Phenomenon of Social Media
The Weaponization of Social Media
Audience Mapping, Targeted Messaging, and ¿Kompromat¿
The Weaponization of Information
Conclusion
4. Conflict and Economics
Technology, the Information Age, and the Costs of War
Global Economics and Migration
The Rise of Kleptocracy
Non-Asymmetric Warfare
Conclusion
5. A Vast and Contested Domain
Information Technology vs Operational Technology
National Critical Infrastructure
The Election Infrastructure
Big Data
Machine learning
Artificial Intelligence & Autonomous Weapons Systems
Conclusion
6. Cyberspace and Conflict
What is Cyberspace?
The Inception
The Militarization
The Malware
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
The Onion Router (TOR)
The Deep and Dark Web
Conclusion
7. China
The Belt and Road Initiative
A Cyber Cold War
¿Kill with a Borrowed Sword¿
The Great Firewall and the Great Cannon
A Sprawling National Security Environment
Conclusion
8. Russia
Cold War 2.0
The Merger of Politics and Criminality
Active Measures and Cyberwarriors
Ukraine, 2014
United States, 2016
Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Conclusion
9. The Maritime Supply Chain
Vast, Diverse, and Anarchic
Containerization
Targeting, Screening, Scanning, and Inspecting
Trusted Shippers and Layered Defenses
Calculating the Dangers and the Risk
An Opaque and Expanding Environment
Choke Points
Conclusion
10. Politics, Crime, and Terror
Crime and Terrorism: Differences and Similarities
Crime and Terrorism: The Nexus
West Toward Chechnya and Russia
The Tri-Border Area (TBA)
Chinese Triads
Conclusion
11. Chemical, Biological, Radiological & Nuclear Threats
Chemical Warfare
Resurgence in Chemical Weapons
Chemical Agents
Threats and Countermeasures
Non-Terrorist Threats
Biological Threats
Biological Agents
Synthetic Biology
Biosecurity Policy
Radiological and Nuclear Threats
What is radioactivity?
So, You Want to Build a Bomb?
The Dirty Bomb Alternative
Controlling proliferation
Conclusion
About the author
By Jack A. Jarmon
Summary
The second edition of The New Era offers students and instructors a whole cloth, insightful perspective on the dynamic, changing patterns and orientations unleashed by the processes of globalization, technology, and the emerging "Second Cold War" era.
