The Terrorism Threat and U.S. Government Response:
Operational and Organizational Factors
Edited by
James M. Smith
and
William C. Thomas
INSS Book Series
March 2001
Published by
USAF Institute for National Security Studies
US Air Force Academy, Colorado
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ISBN: 0-9710900-0-9
The Terrorism Threat and U.S. Government Response: Operational and Organizational Factors
Contents
Foreword: Twenty-First
Century Terrorism
Bruce Hoffman
1. Terrorism Threat
and Response: A Policy Perspective
James M. Smith and William
C. Thomas
Part I: The Terrorist Threat
2. The Terrorist
Threat in Strategic Context
James M. Smith and William C.
Thomas
3. The Changing Nature
of Terrorism
Stephen Sloan
4. WMD Terrorism: Hype
or Reality
David A. Kay
5. The Cyber
Threat
Gregory J. Rattray
Part II: Prevention, Preemption, Deterrence, and Denial
6. Domestic
Preemption
Robert Blitzer
7. Combating
International Terrorism
David Tucker
8. Antiterrorism via
Counterproliferation
James J. Wirtz
9.
Intelligence
Peter Probst
Part III: Responding to and Organizing for Terrorism
10. The Military�s
Response to Domestic WMD Terrorism
William C. Thomas
11. International
Incident Response
Department of State
12. Organizing to
Combat 21st Century Terrorism
Douglas Menarchik
Epilogue: A Terrorism
Agenda for the United States
Jay Davis