Download or read book Countering Overseas Threats written by Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countering overseas threats :gaps in State Department management of security training may increase risk to U.S. personnel : report to congressional addressees.
Download or read book Countering Overseas Threats written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S personnel engaged in efforts overseas have faced numerous threats to their security. To mitigate these threats and prepare U.S. personnel for work in high-threat environments, State established a mandatory requirement that specified U.S. executive branch personnel under chief-of-mission authority and on assignments or short-term TDY complete FACT security training before arrival in a high-threat environment. This report examines (1) State and USAID personnel's compliance with the FACT training requirement and (2) State's and USAID's oversight of their personnel's compliance. GAO reviewed agencies' policy guidance; analyzed State and USAID personnel data from March 2013 and training data for 2008 through 2013; reviewed agency documents; and interviewed agency officials in Washington, D.C., and at various overseas locations. This public version of a February 2014 sensitive report excludes information that State has deemed sensitive. GAO is making several recommen-dations to improve oversight of compliance with the FACT training requirement. These include identifying a mechanism to readily determine the universe of U.S. personnel subject to the requirement, updating State's policy manual to reflect changes made to the requirement in June 2013, consistently verifying that all U.S. civilian personnel have completed FACT training before arriving in designated high-threat countries, and monitoring compliance with the requirement. State concurred with the recommendations and stated that it will take steps to address them. USAID did not specifically agree or disagree but noted it plans to take additional steps.
Download or read book Countering Overseas Threats written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countering Overseas Threats: Gaps in State Department Management of Security Training May Increase Risk to U.S. Personnel
Download or read book Countering Overseas Threats written by U S Government Accountability Offi Gao and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countering Overseas Threats: Gaps in State Department Management of Security Training May Increase Risk to U.S. Personnel
Download or read book Countering Overseas Threats written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S personnel engaged in efforts overseas have faced numerous threats to their security. To mitigate these threats and prepare U.S. personnel for work in high-threat environments, State established a mandatory requirement that specified U.S. executive branch personnel under chief-of-mission authority and on assignments or short-term TDY complete FACT security training before arrival in a high-threat environment. This report examines (1) State and USAID personnel's compliance with the FACT training requirement and (2) State's and USAID's oversight of their personnel's compliance. GAO reviewed agencies' policy guidance; analyzed State and USAID personnel data from March 2013 and training data for 2008 through 2013; reviewed agency documents; and interviewed agency officials in Washington, D.C., and at various overseas locations. This public version of a February 2014 sensitive report excludes information that State has deemed sensitive. GAO is making several recommen-dations to improve oversight of compliance with the FACT training requirement. These include identifying a mechanism to readily determine the universe of U.S. personnel subject to the requirement, updating State's policy manual to reflect changes made to the requirement in June 2013, consistently verifying that all U.S. civilian personnel have completed FACT training before arriving in designated high-threat countries, and monitoring compliance with the requirement. State concurred with the recommendations and stated that it will take steps to address them. USAID did not specifically agree or disagree but noted it plans to take additional steps.
Download or read book Countering Overseas Threats written by U S Government Accountability Offi Gao and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countering Overseas Threats: DOD and State Need to Address Gaps in Monitoring Security Equipment Transferred to Lebanon
Download or read book Countering Overseas Threats written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countering Overseas Threats: DOD and State Need to Address Gaps in Monitoring Security Equipment Transferred to Lebanon
Download or read book Countering Overseas Threats written by Rebecca Gambler and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As of Nov. 2013, about 100,000 of the approx. 1 million foreign students in the U.S. were approved to participate in optional practical training (OPT) -- an employment benefit that allows foreign students to obtain temporary work in their areas of study during and after completing an academic program. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is responsible for certifying schools; monitoring foreign students and schools, including their compliance with OPT requirements; and enforcing immigration laws for those that fail to comply. This report examines the extent to which the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) has (1) identified and assessed risks associated with OPT; and (2) collected information and developed monitoring mechanisms to help ensure students comply with OPT requirements and maintain their legal status. Tables and figure. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Countering Terrorism written by Martha Crenshaw and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can We Construct a Grand Strategy to Counter Terrorism? Fifteen years after September 11, the United States still faces terror threats—both domestic and foreign. After years of wars, ever more intensive and pervasive surveillance, enhanced security measures at major transportation centers, and many attempts to explain who we are fighting and why and how to fight them, the threats continue to multiply. So, too, do our attempts to understand just what terrorism is and how to counter it. Two leaders in the field of terrorism studies, Martha Crenshaw and Gary LaFree, provide a critical look at how we have dealt with the terror threat over the years. They make clear why it is so difficult to create policy to counter terrorism. The foes are multiple and often amorphous, the study of the field dogged by disagreement on basic definitional and methodological issues, and the creation of policy hobbled by an exacting standard: the counterterrorist must succeed all the time; the terrorist only once. As Countering Terrorism shows, there are no simple solutions to this threat.
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Download or read book Combating the Financing of Transnational Threats written by Michael Jacobson and published by Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronting the multiple national security threats facing the world today demands not only close international cooperation but also coordinated national strategies that employ all elements of national power. Such a strategy recognizes that no one specific tool will deter, disrupt or prevent the illicit activities of terrorists, proliferators, insurgents, organized criminals or other transnational threats, and that employing a variety of instruments in a coordinated fashion is likely to produce the best results. However, one tool that shows particular promise, especially when used in concert with other policy tools, is combating the financing of transnational threats. Combating illicit financing can be effective, depending on the target, at three levels: deterrence, prevention and disruption. Freezing terrorist funds, for example, has a deterrent effect on major donors, pressing financiers to rethink their support because of the potential hindrance to their day-to-day business activities. Countering terrorist financing will not dry up all the funding available to terrorists, but it is an effective and efficient means of constricting our adversaries’ operating environment by making it difficult to fund illicit activities. The financial sector provides reliable and substantive intelligence to investigators tracing money both upstream and downstream, from funding sources to potential operators. Following the “money trail” enables authorities to thwart attacks, and despite the difficulty of permanently disabling terrorist entities, disrupting their financial transactions constrains their ability to function. Weapons proliferation, especially in the area of missile technology and weapons of mass destruction (WMD), is extremely expensive. Similarly, insurgencies require significant funding, as do organized terrorist groups, which require extensive resources to train, equip and pay operatives; bribe officials; support members’ families; secure materials; and publicly promote their cause. Since even inexpensive attacks require funding, small-scale interventions can effectively thwart terrorists if they are unable to access necessary funds when and where they need them. Since the 9/11 attacks the terrorist threat has evolved structurally and financially. Globalization has exponentially increased the flow of transactions through the international financial system, in part making it easier to conduct illicit transactions in plain sight.
Download or read book Countering Overseas Threats Dod and State Need to Address Gaps in Monitoring of Security Equipment Transferred to Lebanon written by Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countering overseas threats, DOD and State need to address gaps in monitoring of security equipment transferred to Lebanon : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives.
Download or read book Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Countering Overseas Threats written by Charles Michael Johnson, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-05 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2009, the U.S. has allocated $671 million in security-related assistance for Lebanon to train, modernize, and equip the Lebanese Armed Forces and Internal Security Forces. The U.S. government established end-use monitoring programs to ensure that defense equipment is safeguarded. The Foreign Assistance Act prohibits certain assistance to any unit of foreign security forces if the Secretary of State has credible information that such a unit has committed a gross violation of human rights. This report examined U.S. security-related assistance for Lebanon. It assesses the extent to which the U.S. government (1) disbursed or committed funds allocated for Lebanese security forces in FY 2009 through 2013; (2) implemented end-use monitoring for equipment transferred to Lebanese security forces; and (3) vetted Lebanese recipients of U.S. security-related training for human rights violations. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book The United Kingdom s Strategy for Countering International Terrorism written by Home Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document sets out the United Kingdom's strategy, known as CONTEST, for countering the threat from international terrorism. The aim of CONTEST is to reduce the risk to the United Kingdom (UK) and its interests overseas from international terrorism, so that people can go about their lives freely and with confidence. This is a revised and more detailed version of the strategy contained in "The national security strategy of the United Kingdom" (Cm. 7291, 2008, ISBN 9780101729123). The first part sets the context with a brief history of the changing threat to the United Kingdom and to UK interests overseas from international terrorism, examines the present threat, the factors which are shaping it and the assumptions about how it may develop. The second part sets out the principles which will govern the strategy, including a commitment to human rights and the rule of law, recognition of the need to address the causes as well as the symptoms of terrorism and the need to co-operate with other countries. The four main streams of the CONTEST strategy are: (1) pursue - to stop terrorist attacks; (2) prevent - to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting violent extremism; (3) protect - to strengthen our protection against terrorist attack; (4) prepare - where an attack cannot be stopped, to mitigate its impact. The third part of the document outlines who will deliver the strategy and how its impact will be measured. The document concludes with a section explaining the importance of communications as a part of the counter-terrorism strategy.
Download or read book Combating Terrorism written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Combating terrorism interagency framework and agency programs to address the overseas threat written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
