Download or read book Counter Terrorism Strategies in a Fragmented International Legal Order written by Larissa J. Herik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the relationship between different branches of international law and their applicability to terrorism.
Download or read book Service Member s Personal Protection Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chemical and Biological Terrorism written by Committee on R&D Needs for Improving Civilian Medical Response to Chemical and Biological Terrorism Incidents and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-02-26 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The threat of domestic terrorism today looms larger than ever. Bombings at the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City's Federal Building, as well as nerve gas attacks in Japan, have made it tragically obvious that American civilians must be ready for terrorist attacks. What do we need to know to help emergency and medical personnel prepare for these attacks? Chemical and Biological Terrorism identifies the R&D efforts needed to implement recommendations in key areas: pre-incident intelligence, detection and identification of chemical and biological agents, protective clothing and equipment, early recognition that a population has been covertly exposed to a pathogen, mass casualty decontamination and triage, use of vaccines and pharmaceuticals, and the psychological effects of terror. Specific objectives for computer software development are also identified. The book addresses the differences between a biological and chemical attack, the distinct challenges to the military and civilian medical communities, and other broader issues. This book will be of critical interest to anyone involved in civilian preparedness for terrorist attack: planners, administrators, responders, medical professionals, public health and emergency personnel, and technology designers and engineers.
Download or read book Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-10-26 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All U.S. agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect or "mine" personal data-such as phone records or Web sites visited-should be required to evaluate the programs' effectiveness, lawfulness, and impacts on privacy. A framework is offered that agencies can use to evaluate such information-based programs, both classified and unclassified. The book urges Congress to re-examine existing privacy law to assess how privacy can be protected in current and future programs and recommends that any individuals harmed by violations of privacy be given a meaningful form of redress. Two specific technologies are examined: data mining and behavioral surveillance. Regarding data mining, the book concludes that although these methods have been useful in the private sector for spotting consumer fraud, they are less helpful for counterterrorism because so little is known about what patterns indicate terrorist activity. Regarding behavioral surveillance in a counterterrorist context, the book concludes that although research and development on certain aspects of this topic are warranted, there is no scientific consensus on whether these techniques are ready for operational use at all in counterterrorism.
Download or read book Service Member s Personal Protection Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will help service members & their families become less vulnerable to terrorists. It will not ensure immunity against terrorism, but by practicing these techniques & proven security habits, the possibility of becoming a terrorist target will be lessened. The main steps you can take to combat terrorism are: keep a low profile; be unpredictable; & be alert. Chapters: (1): General Security Checklist: House, Home, & Family Security; Ground Transportation Security; Traveling Defensively by Air; & Taken Hostage -- You Can Survive; (2): DoD Code of Conduct for Personnel Subject to Terrorist Activity. Also includes pages to record your personal & family data; & addresses & telephone numbers for the antiterrorism office of each service branch.
Download or read book Personal Security Terrorism Awareness written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terrorism and Personal Protection written by Brian Michael Jenkins and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1985 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Antiterrorism Personal Protection Guide A Self Help Guide to Antiterrorism written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is designed to assist in making Department of Defense (DoD) employees and their families less vulnerable to terrorists. All DoD personnel should become familiar with its contents and incorporate those protective measures that are applicable to their particular situation. Moreover, they should ensure that every member of their family is made aware of this valuable information so they can help protect themselves as well. Terrorism is an indiscriminate act that strikes in varying forms of threats and violence. Terrorists generate fear through intimidation, coercion, and acts of violence such as hijackings, bombings, or kidnappings. As past and more recent events have shown, however, terrorists have reached new levels of organization, sophistication, and violence -- their tactics and techniques are always changing and will continue to be a challenge to predict and neutralize. Accordingly, everyone must remain diligent in applying the proper protective measures. DoD employees and their families are an important part of the military. This guide will not ensure immunity from terrorism, but by practicing these techniques and proven security habits, the possibility of becoming a target will be reduced. Defensive awareness and personal security regarding terrorism are the responsibilities of everyone assigned to the Department of Defense. As members of the military community, DoD employees are a highly valuable yet most vulnerable resource. Constant awareness can help protect all members of the military family from acts of terrorism.
Download or read book Targeted Killing written by Thomas B. Hunter and published by Thomas Hunter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an objective, strategic assessment of the role, usefulness, and logistical concerns posed by state-sponsored targeted killing and its overall efficiency in the current war on global terrorism.
Download or read book Personal Security written by Richard N. Bradford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK DESCRIPTION How to Recognize the Threat and Avoid the Attack Here is a unique, common sense, and proven life-saving approach to recognizing and avoiding violent assaults by terrorists and other criminals. The issues faced by potential "targets of opportunity" as well as the concerns of those specifically targeted for individual attack are addressed. Procedures appropriate for use by government officials, business or vacation travelers, or those simply going about their daily lives are described. Relevant techniques to discover hostile schemes in the planning stages and tactics to then avoid or escape assaults are detailed. This is not another book on the latest in firearms technology, knife fighting moves, or hand-to-hand self defense techniques. It is about how to avoid the need to resort to those options. While most personal security training concentrates on countering an attack, the methods described here focus on recognizing and avoiding the attack before it takes place. The concepts presented are not complicated or dramatic. In the mayhem of a surprise violent assault, intricate counterattacks are unrealistic. The book describes how terrorists and other criminals plan and execute violent attacks. It then explains how to uncover and disrupt their plans before they become deadly encounters. While others emphasize "situational awareness," but do not explain how to attain and maintain that awareness, this book provides straightforward techniques that can be practiced everyday. You will become keenly aware of what is going on around you. You will not only be more observant, you will know what it is you are looking for. You will recognize potential dangers and develop appropriate ways to avoid or evade them. The techniques examined here neutralize the terrorist and criminal's most critical advantage - surprise. Included are ways to assess and alter the habits that make you vulnerable. You will make yourself a "hard target," encouraging the would-be attacker to look elsewhere for a victim. Included are strategies to analyze your own vulnerabilities in the same way that hostile assailants do. Also included are explanations of how to detect criminal or terrorist surveillance and how it differs from classic surveillance methodology. Learn how to identify where, when, and how terrorists and criminals are likely to conduct surveillance. Determine where, when, and how they plan an assault. Most importantly, learn what to do about it. Statistically, most attacks against specifically targeted individuals take place while the victim is in transit. Chapters covering techniques to discover and escape from attacks while driving are included. As an additional benefit, these techniques raise your general awareness, significantly increasing your ability not only to discover and avoid attacks, but also to anticipate and avoid traffic accidents. Also included are tips for avoiding being a victim of a mass casualty tragedy such as those which recently devastated London, Barcelona, Manchester, Paris, Stockholm, Saint Petersburg, Berlin, Columbus, Orlando, Marseille, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, New York, Sutherland Springs, and Parkland. The author, a West Point graduate, former Army Special Forces Officer, and retired CIA Paramilitary Operations Officer with over 35 years of service, designed and taught personal security courses for CIA and other US Government personnel deploying overseas. After retirement, he continued to develop, and refine new approaches to personal security. Many of those strategies are presented here for the first time.
Download or read book Executive s Guide to Personal Security written by David A. Katz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a company or an individual, you cannot control the desire and the ability of criminals and terrorists. However, you have full control over effectively lowering your risk of being attacked by increasing security measures–physical, technical, and procedural. The less vulnerable we are, the less attractive we are to any criminal or terrorist planning an attack. Let Executive’s Guide to Personal Security show you how to ensure safety both at home and abroad. Order your copy today!
Download or read book Protect America Not Afraid and Fighting Back written by Roland Stewart and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With terrorist attacks around the world and here at home and an increase in American workplace violence, I am both passionate and driven to offer valuable information concerning important topics in the world today: Anti-terrorism and Workplace/Home Protection. A 20 year Air Force veteran, I've instructed others around the world, and now I want to share with you the secrets criminals and terrorists don't want you to know! The threats we face are real, and the consequences of conducting business as usual brings about severe consequences. PROTECT AMERICA: Not Afraid and Fighting Back is an in-depth educational training guide designed to offer smart and critical infomation to both the public and private sector fostering smarter habits and a new attitude when it comes to security, terrorism and violence at work and at home. A peek inside includes a real and awakening look at lessons learned examining incidents of terrorist attacks on our nation and vicious workplace attacks. I discuss the significance of workplace exercises, and how critical training exercises are to the safety and security of the workplace. I've included easy to learn procedures on bomb threat/suspicious package procedures and checklists, duress and emergency response actions, blood borne pathogens and first aid techniques, and techniques on identifying suspicious personnel around the workplace and around your home. We take a close look at personal and family security to include special precautions for children. Finally, I Salute and honor, a chapter devoted to those heroes, unsung heroes and everyday people doing the right thing. If we don't act now, tomorrow may be too late, and doing nothing is no longer an option.
Download or read book Personal Protection Against Terrorism written by Thomas E. Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oklahoma City bombing, intentional crashing of airliners on September 11, 2001, and anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001 have made Americans acutely aware of the impacts of terrorism. These events and continued threats of terrorism have raised questions about the impact on the psychological health of the nation and how well the public health infrastructure is able to meet the psychological needs that will likely result. Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism highlights some of the critical issues in responding to the psychological needs that result from terrorism and provides possible options for intervention. The committee offers an example for a public health strategy that may serve as a base from which plans to prevent and respond to the psychological consequences of a variety of terrorism events can be formulated. The report includes recommendations for the training and education of service providers, ensuring appropriate guidelines for the protection of service providers, and developing public health surveillance for preevent, event, and postevent factors related to psychological consequences.
Download or read book Secrets Protection written by Phrantceena Halres and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Starts with You. We are on the verge of a critical movement in this country, one where each individual will start to recognize how easy it is to make a difference in the security of our country. This collective consciousness will change the face of national security. This is why it is important to understand that YOU, as well as every other US citizen, can make a difference. Very few Americans are aware of the fact that 12 million violent crimes are committed per year in the United States, with an estimated one fifth of the population falling victim to these crimes. Aside from that, it is well-known that the threat of terrorism is always prevalent, allusive and in many cases, "invisible." We have domestic threats from criminals, as well as foreign threats from terrorists. But how can an individual citizen make a real difference in the protection of America? It can be done and it is easier than you think.Liberty and security do not compete in a zero-sum game. Our freedoms are the very foundation of our strength and security. But the very definition of security usually requires a few questions that need to be answered before security measures are put in place. Who or what are we trying to protect? Who or what are we trying to protect it from? It stands to reason that, in light of the recent shootings, bombings and other acts of violence, we have a lot more to protect than just ourselves. We have families, neighborhoods, communities, businesses and the nation that all need our attention. That's why it is so important for us to rededicate efforts to our personal and national security to ensure that what transpires in the course of our daily lives is protected. There exist various types of safety. There is personal safety and there is community safety, the latter of which falls under local, state and national security. To begin with personal safety, experts for decades have long studied what makes an individual more likely to be the target of any given crime. As for national security, those aims and targets are more difficult to see, but can also be deterred with the same awareness. I want to help you understand one main foundation of personal and community safety, which exists in all of us. It's that innate feeling we have when we know something isn't right in a situation or an environment. It is the hair that stands up on our neck when we know that danger is imminent. I call this our "sixth sense," which is the ability to intrinsically perceive possible threats without consciously knowing where that threat is coming from. Think about it. How many of us have the ability to naturally sense when something feels "off," yet these feelings are often dismissed or mocked? Humans are the only animals who sense danger, yet walk right into it. Rather than offend the person who has triggered our fear instinct, we usually choose being polite over being safe. For example, we might politely enter an elevator with a person who, for some unknown reason, has triggered our fear instinct rather than risk appearing rude and waiting for the next elevator.What people do not know is that there is now solid scientific evidence that their "sixth sense" can save their life. "Instinct Science" is a rapidly emerging branch of research that studies the connection between subtle feelings and impending danger. Consider that even the U.S. Navy includes the word "6th sense" in their combat training briefs, citing that some soldiers use it to feel danger before an enemy attack. This may sound contrary to your conditioned beliefs of practicality and polite well-being, but how many times have you heard crime victims report having a "gut instinct" or warning prior to the actual incident. The subsequent ignoring of these "gut instincts" was followed with a crime that could have otherwise been avoided or minimized had these "gut instincts" or warnings been heeded and respected as possible truths.
Download or read book Science and Technology of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Second Edition written by Mark A. Prelas and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, resources on terrorism and counterterrorism tend to focus on the social, behavioral, and legal aspects of the subject, with minimal emphasis on the scientific and technological aspects. Taking into account these practical considerations, the second edition of Science and Technology of Terrorism and Counterterrorism discusses the nature of terrorism and the materials used by terrorists. It describes how intelligence professionals and law enforcement personnel can detect and destroy these materials, and how they can deal with terrorist groups. This volume begins by introducing the shift in analysis of terrorist attacks after September 11, 2001 and summarizes selected case studies. It discusses the origin and nature of terrorism and the factors involved in diplomacy. Covering a broad range of topics, the book examines: Aerosol dispersion of toxic materials Bioterrorism and the manufacture, detection, and delivery of biological agents Agricultural terrorism Nuclear terrorism and nuclear weapons systems, threats, and safeguards Chemical terrorism, including manufacture, detection, delivery, and decontamination Cyber-terrorism Personal protective equipment The role of government at federal, state, and local levels The role of international agencies and their resources, capabilities, and responsibilities The National Infrastructure Protection Plan As terrorist activities increase globally, it is critical that those charged with protecting the public understand the myriad of ways in which terrorists operate. While we cannot predict where, when, and how terrorists will strike, our vigilance in staying abreast of the terrorist threat is the only way to have a fighting chance against those who seek to destroy our world.
Download or read book Counter Terrorism and the Use of Force in International Law written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, Michael Schmitt explores the legality of the attacks against Al Qaeda and the Taliban under the "jus ad bellum," that component of international law that governs when a State may resort to force as an instrument of national policy. Although States have conducted military counterterrorist operations in the past, the scale and scope of Operation Enduring Freedom may signal a sea change in strategies to defend against terrorism. This paper explores the normative limit on counterterrorist operations. Specifically, under what circumstances can a victim State react forcibly to an act of terrorism? Against whom? When? With what degree of severity? And for how long? The author contends that the attacks against Al Qaeda were legitimate exercises of the rights of individual and collective defense. They were necessary and proportional, and once the Taliban refused to comply with U.S. and United Nations demands to turn over the terrorists located in Afghanistan, it was legally appropriate for coalition forces to enter the country for the purpose of ending the ongoing Al Qaeda terrorist campaign. However, the attacks on the Taliban were less well grounded in traditional understandings of international law. Although the Taliban were clearly in violation of their legal obligation not to allow their territory to be used as a terrorist sanctuary, the author suggests that the degree and nature of the relationship between the Taliban and Al Qaeda may not have been such that the September 11 attacks could be attributed to the Taliban, thereby disallowing strikes against them in self-defense under traditional understandings of international law. Were the attacks, therefore, illegal? Not necessarily. Over the past half-century the international community's understanding of the international law governing the use of force by States has been continuously evolving. The author presents criteria likely to drive future assessments of the legality of counterterrorist operatio7.
