Terrorism, Asymmetric Warfare, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Defending the U.S. Homeland

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgments xi
• Chapter 1 - The Changing Face of Asymmetric Warfare and Terrorism 1
• Chapter 2 - Risk Assessment: Planning for “non-Patterns” and Potential Risk 11
• Chapter 3 - Threat Prioritization: Seeking to Identify Current and Future Threats 39
• Chapter 4 - Types of Attack: Determining Future Methods of Attack and the Needed Response 89
• Chapter 5 - Threat Assessment and Prioritization: Identifying Threats 237
• Chapter 6 - U.S. Government Efforts to Create a Homeland Defense Capability 245
• Chapter 7 - Federal Efforts by Department and Agency 275
• Chapter 8 - Federal, State, and Local Cooperation 373
• Notes 379
• Chapter 9 - How Other Nations Deal with These Threats 381
• Chapter 10 - Lessons from Recent Major Commissions on Terrorism 391
• Chapter 11 - Conclusions and Recommendations 415
• About the Author 449