Nontraditional Warfare: Twenty-First Century Threats and Responses - Softcover

Schilling, William R.

9781574885057: Nontraditional Warfare: Twenty-First Century Threats and Responses

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574885057 ISBN 13: 9781574885057

Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc., 2002

The new defense challenge confronting the United States involves a range of nontraditional warfare threats that are far different from the large-scale conventional or nuclear threats posed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Now at the forefront, threats involving chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons from secondary states and terrorist groups along with other ill-defined forms of nontraditional warfare-urban, information, drug, terrorist, and guerrilla-undermine the effectiveness of the modern U.S. military and other government agencies. This volume brings together the wide-ranging talent of technologists, academics, and journalists to define the nature of these nontraditional threats and the potential means to counter them. They point out shortcomings in U.S. policy as well as organizational shortfalls that must be corrected in order to better prepare the means to meet and defeat these unusual and ill-defined threats.

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Review:

"Twenty-first-century America, no longer shielded by its surrounding oceans, is eminently vulnerable to major losses on its very own soil. This places a new priority on the defense of the homeland through actions, both at home and abroad, to counter enemies who would employ nontraditional, as well as traditional, methods of conflict."

About the Author:

William R. Schilling is president of the Washington Institute of Technology, a Washington-based defense analysis firm that specializes in the application of new and emerging technologies to national defense issues. Norman R. Augustine is the former president, chairman of the board, and chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation.

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