Barry Scott Zellen

State of Recovery (eBook, ePUB)

The Quest to Restore American Security After 9/11

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441103246
• Artikelnr.: 58606345

Autorenporträt

Barry Scott Zellen is a senior research scholar at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, USA, where he is Director of the Project on Climate and Conflict and Editor-in-Chief of The Culture and Conflict Review and The Climate and Conflict Review journals. He has published several books, including State of Doom: Bernard Brodie, the Bomb, and the Birth of the Bipolar World (Continuum, 2011).

Barry Scott Zellen is the research director of the Arctic Security Project at the Center for Contemporary Conflict at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, where he is also the deputy editor of Strategic Insights.

Barry Scott Zellen is editor of the Strategic Insights Journal and the Culture and Conflict Review at the Naval Postgraduate School, where he also serves as research director of the Arctic Security Project.