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  • Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Terrorist Attacks

    Exemplified by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin

    by Laura Mostert, Roy Lindelauf, Chiara Pulice, Marnix Provoost, Priyanka Amin, V.S. Subrahmanian ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    One of the most influential actors in spreading Islamist violence across the Sahel is Jama’at Nasr Al Islam Wal Muslimin (JNIM).This book provides the first systematic quantitative analysis of JNIM’s behavior by analyzing a 12-year database of JNIM’s attacks and the environment surrounding JNIM. This book leverages AI/ML predictive models to accurately predict almost 40 types of attacks using over ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict

    by Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter, Jacob N. Shapiro ...
    How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today’s conflicts more effectivelyThe way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between large armies at central fronts. Today's conflicts find major powers facing rebel insurgencies that deploy elusive methods, from improvised explosives to terrorist attacks. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook

    by David Kamien ...
    More than $3 billion is spent annually on homeland security. New threats and vulnerabilities are identified on virtually a daily basis. The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook provides first responders, security professionals, and students with a fundamental and definitive overview of critical homeland security issues. This first all-in-one reference features review and assessment of myriad ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Words of Intelligence

    A Dictionary

    by Jan Goldman ...
    Words of Intelligence: A Dictionary is intended for the intelligence and national security men and women who are fighting the Global War on Terrorism at all levels: local, state, and federal. The intelligence community has undergone massive changes since the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, and the Department of Defense were created, and recently, with the establishment of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Rise of iWar

    Identity, Information, and the Individualization of Modern Warfare

    by Glenn J. Voelz ...
    During a decade of global counterterrorism operations and two extended counterinsurgency campaigns, the United States was confronted with a new kind of adversary. Without uniforms, flags, and formations, the task of identifying and targeting these combatants represented an unprecedented operational challenge. The existing, Cold War-era doctrinal methods were largely unsuited to the cyber-warfare ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • An Invisible Scalpel: Low-Visibility Operations in the War on Terror

    by Charles R. V. O'Quinn ...
    The War on Terror (WOT) is actually a war against extremist insurgents comprised of numerous and varied organizations scattered across the globe. They are spurred to action by an extremist ideology that is nurtured, demonstrated, and led by al Qaeda and its leadership. This ideology serves as the insurgency's center of gravity whereby it gains all manner of support across a broad spectrum of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nuclear Terrorism

    Countering the Threat

    Edited by Brecht Volders, Tom Sauer ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This volume aims to improve understanding of nuclear security and the prevention of nuclear terrorism.Nuclear terrorism is perceived as one of the most immediate and extreme threats to global security today. While the international community has made important progress in securing fissile material, there are still important steps to be made with nearly 2,000 metric tons of weapons-usable nuclear ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Three Circles of War

    by Heather S. Gregg; Hy S. Rothstein; John Arquilla ...
    The conflict in Iraq is characterized by three faces of war: interstate conflict, civil war, and insurgency. The Coalitions invasion of Iraq in March 2003 began as an interstate war. No sooner had Saddam Hussein been successfully deposed, however, than U.S.-led forces faced a lethal insurgency. After Sunni al Qaeda in Iraq bombed the Shia al-Askari Shrine in 2006, the burgeoning conflict took on ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

  • Conflict and Complexity

    Countering Terrorism, Insurgency, Ethnic and Regional Violence

    Edited by Yaneer Bar-Yam, Ali A. Minai, Philip Vos Fellman ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book follows the methodologies of complex adaptive systems research in their application to addressing the problems of terrorism, specifically terrorist networks, their structure and various methods of mapping and interdicting them as well as exploring the complex landscape of network-centric and irregular warfare. A variety of new models and approaches are presented here, including Dynamic ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Killing Americans

    Insurgent Motivations, Risk Factors, and Implications

    by Christopher Linebarger, Amira Jadoon, Suzanne Weedon Levy, Victor Asal ...
    Series series Causes and Consequences of Terrorism
    Why do some insurgent groups target American nationals? At first glance, it appears to be a risky strategy, inviting retaliation from the world's foremost military power. But a number of incentives make anti-American violence an attractive option for certain insurgent organizations. Killing Americans explores the risk factors involved in insurgent groups' decisions to plan and conduct attacks on ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The 2007 Iran Nuclear Estimate Revisited

    Anatomy of a Controversy

    Edited by Robert Jervis, James J. Wirtz ...
    The 2007 Iran Nuclear Estimate Revisited: Anatomy of a Controversy explores both the contents and reaction to the U.S. intelligence community’s (IC) National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that Iran had suspended its clandestine program to develop nuclear weapons. The volume offers insights into the art of intelligence analysis and the issues encountered when estimates run counter to policy or ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Nonproliferation Policy and Nuclear Posture

    Causes and Consequences for the Spread of Nuclear Weapons

    Edited by Neil Narang, Erik Gartzke, Matthew Kroenig ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This volume examines the causes and consequences of nuclear postures and nonproliferation policies.The real-world importance of nuclear weapons has led to the production of a voluminous scholarly literature on the causes and consequences of nuclear weapons proliferation. Missing from this literature, however, is a more nuanced analysis that moves beyond a binary treatment of nuclear weapons ... Read more

    $76.99 USD