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America is trapped in a state of war that has consumed our national life since before Pearl Harbor. Over seven decades and several bloody wars, Democratic and Republican politicians alike have assembled an increasing complicated—and increasingly ineffective—network of security services. Trillions of tax dollars have been diverted from essential domestic needs while the Pentagon created a worldwide web of military bases, inventing new American security interests where none previously existed. Yet this pursuit has not only damaged our democratic institutions and undermined our economic strength—it has fundamentally failed to make us safer. In The Emergency State, senior New York Times journalist David C. Unger reveals the hidden costs of America’s obsessive pursuit of absolute national security, showing how this narrow-minded emphasis on security came to distort our political life. Unger reminds us that in the first 150 years of the American republic the U.S. valued limited military intervention abroad, along with the checks and balances put in place by the founding fathers. Yet American history took a sharp turn during and just after World War II, when we began building a vast and cumbersome complex of national security institutions and beliefs. Originally designed to wage hot war against Germany and cold war against the Soviet Union, our security bureaucracy has become remarkably ineffective at confronting the elusive, non-state sponsored threats we now face. The Emergency State traces a series of missed opportunities—from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama—when we could have paused to rethink our defense strategy and didn’t. We have ultimately failed to dismantle our outdated national security state because both parties are equally responsible for its expansion. While countless books have exposed the damage wrought by George W. Bush's "war on terror," Unger shows it was only the natural culmination of decades of bipartisan emergency state logic—and argues that Obama, along with many previous Democratic presidents, has failed to shift course in any meaningful way. The Emergency State: America’s Pursuit of Absolute Security At All Costs reveals the depth of folly into which we’ve fallen, as Americans eagerly trade away the country’s greatest strengths for a fleeting illusion of safety. Provocative, insightful, and refreshingly nonpartisan, The Emergency State is the definitive untold story of how America became this vulnerable—and how it can build true security again. Author: David C. Unger Hardcover: 368 pages Company: The Penguin Press (2012-02-16) (2012-02-16) ISBN: 1594203245 List Price: $27.95 Amazon Price: $12.94 Used Price: $11.00 
A short monograph on the vital role of the Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA) during the Korean WarAuthor: David A. Hatch, Robert L. Benson Kindle Edition: 35 pages Kindle eBook Company: National Security Agency (2000-08-01) (2000-08-01) List Price: $0.99 Amazon Price: 
National security is one of the most contentious topics in public policy and politics and one of the most important for the twenty-first century. Since the terrorist attacks of the 11th of September 2001, security and defence have undergone such unprecedented overhauls that even recently implemented policies require re-examination. In this second edition of "Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era", Elinor Sloan provides a significantly revised and updated analysis of developments in Canadian and American security and defence policy and notes where there are weaknesses that call for improvement. The author argues that since the Second World War Canada has assumed that potential threats will come from overseas rather than from within its borders. "Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era" shows that Canada's safety depends upon paying equal attention to threats at home and insists that we must consider the effect of climate change on the Arctic as seriously as terrorist threats and ballistic missile defence. Covering a range of pertinent subjects with detail and expertise, this new edition provides timely information and prescriptions for keeping North America safe.Author: Elinor C. Sloan Paperback: 216 pages Company: McGill-Queens University Press (2010-03-25) ISBN: 0773536949 List Price: $27.95 Amazon Price: $21.71 Used Price: $19.50 
Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late 1940s, American workers produced 57 percent of the planet's steel, 62 percent of the oil, 80 percent of the automobiles. The U.S. then had three-fourths of the world's gold supplies. English Prime Minister Edward Heath later said that the United States in the post-War era enjoyed "the greatest prosperity the world has ever known." It was a boom that produced a national euphoria, a buoyant time of grand expectations and an unprecedented faith in our government, in our leaders, and in the American dream--an optimistic spirit which would be shaken by events in the '60s and '70s, and particularly by the Vietnam War.Now, in Grand Expectations, James T. Patterson has written a highly readable and balanced work that weaves the major political, cultural, and economic events of the period into a superb portrait of America from 1945 through Watergate. Here is an era teeming with memorable events--from the bloody campaigns in Korea and the bitterness surrounding McCarthyism to the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, to the Vietnam War, Watergate, and Nixon's resignation. Patterson excels at portraying the amazing growth after World War II--the great building boom epitomized by Levittown (the largest such development in history) and the baby boom (which exploded literally nine months after V-J Day)--as well as the resultant buoyancy of spirit reflected in everything from streamlined toasters, to big, flashy cars, to the soaring, butterfly roof of TWA's airline terminal in New York. And he shows how this upbeat, can-do mood spurred grander and grander expectations as the era progressed. Of course, not all Americans shared in this economic growth, and an important thread running through the book is an informed and gripping depiction of the civil rights movement--from the electrifying Brown v. Board of Education decision, to the violent confrontations in Little Rock, Birmingham, and Selma, to the landmark civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965. Patterson also shows how the Vietnam War--which provoked LBJ's growing credibility gap, vast defense spending that dangerously unsettled the economy, and increasingly angry protests--and a growing rights revolution (including demands by women, Hispanics, the poor, Native Americans, and gays) triggered a backlash that widened hidden rifts in our society, rifts that divided along racial, class, and generational lines. And by Nixon's resignation, we find a national mood in stark contrast to the grand expectations of ten years earlier, one in which faith in our leaders and in the attainability of the American dream was becoming shaken. The Oxford History of the United States The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. The Atlantic Monthly has praised it as "the most distinguished series in American historical scholarship," a series that "synthesizes a generation's worth of historical inquiry and knowledge into one literally state-of-the-art book." Conceived under the general editorship of C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter, and now under the editorship of David M. Kennedy, this renowned series blends social, political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and military history into coherent and vividly written narrative. Author: James T. Patterson Paperback: 829 pages Company: Oxford University Press, USA (1997-11-20) ISBN: 0195117972 List Price: $27.95 Amazon Price: $13.92 Used Price: $1.99 
The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. The result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe may be putting us in greater danger. In TOP SECRET AMERICA, award-winning reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin uncover the enormous size, shape, mission, and consequences of this invisible universe of over 1,300 government facilities in every state in America; nearly 2,000 outside companies used as contractors; and more than 850,000 people granted "Top Secret" security clearance. A landmark exposé of a new, secret "Fourth Branch" of American government, TOP SECRET AMERICA is a tour de force of investigative reporting-and a book sure to spark national and international alarm. Author: Dana Priest, William M. Arkin Hardcover: 320 pages Company: Little, Brown and Company (2011-09-06) ISBN: 0316182214 List Price: $27.99 Amazon Price: $14.92 Used Price: $9.08 
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This book tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities.The Depression was both a disaster and an opportunity. As David Kennedy vividly demonstrates, the economic crisis of the 1930s was far more than a simple reaction to the alleged excesses of the 1920s. For more than a century before 1929, America's unbridled industrial revolution had gyrated through repeated boom and bust cycles, wastefully consuming capital and inflicting untold misery on city and countryside alike. Freedom From Fear explores how the nation agonized over its role in World War II, how it fought the war, why the United States won, and why the consequences of victory were sometimes sweet, sometimes ironic. In a compelling narrative, Kennedy analyzes the determinants of American strategy, the painful choices faced by commanders and statesmen, and the agonies inflicted on the millions of ordinary Americans who were compelled to swallow their fears and face battle as best they could. Both comprehensive and colorful, this account of the most convulsive period in American history, excepting only the Civil War, reveals a period that formed the crucible in which modern America was formed. The Oxford History of the United States The Atlantic Monthly has praised The Oxford History of the United States as "the most distinguished series in American historical scholarship," a series that "synthesizes a generation's worth of historical inquiry and knowledge into one literally state-of-the-art book. Who touches these books touches a profession." Conceived under the general editorship of one of the leading American historians of our time, C. Vann Woodward, The Oxford History of the United States blends social, political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and military history into coherent and vividly written narrative. Previous volumes are Robert Middlekauff's The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution; James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (which won a Pulitzer Prize and was a New York Times Best Seller); and James T. Patterson's Grand Expectations: The United States 1945-1974 (which won a Bancroft Prize). Author: David M. Kennedy Paperback: 936 pages Company: Oxford University Press, USA (2001-04-19) ISBN: 0195144031 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $12.48 Used Price: $2.21 
United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) Employee HandbookOn 1 January 1977, the activation of Headquarters, United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) took place at historic Arlington Hall Station in Arlington, Virginia. INSCOM combined three major building blocks: the U.S. Army Security Agency (communications intelligence and communications security), the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency (counterintelligence and human intelligence), and various local production elements assigned to the Army Chief of Staff for Intelligence. INSCOM began as a world-wide intelligence command composed of multidiscipline intelligence groups located in four diff erent theaters, eight fi eld stations circling the globe, a large intelligence production center located in the Washington, DC area, and a variety of single-discipline units within CONUS. INSCOM provided the Army with a unique capability to conduct multidiscipline intelligence and security operations as well as to provide electronic warfare at echelons above corps. Author: U.S. Military, U.S. Army, United States Army Intelligence and Security Command, INSCOM, D. Kvasnicka, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Government Kindle Edition: 119 pages Kindle eBook Company: www.survivalebooks.com, www.armytechnicalmanuals.com, www.armymilitarymanuals.com (2011-04-29) (2011-04-29) List Price: $0.99 Amazon Price: 
Iraq's strength, ambition, and aggressiveness were for decades a source of regional instability. Saddam Hussein invaded two neighbors (Iran and Kuwait) and oppressed his own population. But now, as Iraq undergoes a transformation to a more open and democratic society, it has become a fragmented country with highly contested politics that opens the door to regional interference and competition. Iraq, Its Neighbors, and the United States examines how Iraq's evolving political order affects its complex relationships with its neighbors and the United States. The book depicts a region unbalanced, shaped by new and old tensions, struggling with a classic collective action dilemma, and anxious about Iraq's political future, as well as America's role in the region, all of which suggest trouble ahead absent concerted efforts to promote regional cooperation. In the volume's case studies, acclaimed scholars and experts review Iraq's bilateral relationships with Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Arab States, Syria, and Jordan and explore how Iraq's neighbors could advance the country's transition to security and stability. Stemming from a unique multiyear study and dialogue initiative sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Peace, Iraq, Its Neighbors, and the United States also looks at the United States' relations with and long-term strategic interests in Iraq. The volume offers recommendations for how the United States also looks at the United States' relations with and long-term strategic interests in Iraq. The volume offers recommendations for how the United States can help Iraq strengthen and grow.Paperback: 300 pages Company: United States Institute of Peace Press (2011-12-16) ISBN: 1601270771 List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $11.50 Used Price: $11.44 
The United States Department of Homeland Security: An Overview, 2E is the single source to help you understand the Department of Homeland Security. It provides a comprehensive overview of the Department’s history, mission, organization, and programs designed to reduce America’s vulnerability to attack and quickly recover from disaster.
Learn about:
The Terrorist Threat Natural Disasters Homeland Security Strategy Intelligence & Warning Critical Infrastructure Protection Border and Transportation Security Domestic Counterterrorism Emergency Preparedness & Response Defending Against Catastrophic Threats First Responders State & Local Fusion Centers The National Guard Homeland Security’s Past Homeland Security’s Future
This book takes a strategic look at the Department of Homeland Security and answers the key questions: “what is DHS?”, “why do we need it?”, and “how does it protect America?”. Author: CW Productions Ltd., Richard A. White, Tina Markowski, Kevin Collins Paperback: 560 pages Company: Pearson Learning Solutions (2010-09-03) ISBN: 0558834884 List Price: $82.00 Amazon Price: $75.00 Used Price: $44.59 
The U.S. Marine Corps must tailor its reconnaissance tactics in urban environments.Author: Jamison Jo Medby, Russell W. Glenn, Scott Gerwehr, Fred Gellert, Andrew O'Donnell Paperback: 129 pages Company: Rand Publishing (2003-03-17) (2003-03-26) ISBN: 0833033115 List Price: $22.00 Amazon Price: $19.61 Used Price: $2.61 Amazon.com KindleStore: United States Security
Ongoing tensions between Iran and Israel are highly dangerous for the Middle East and have the potential to spark another major war in the region, perhaps on a much larger scale than prior conflicts. Such a confrontation between the two nations would jeopardize regional and international security, and is of immediate concern for the United States.In this new book noted scholars Jalil Roshandel and Nathan Lean provide an in-depth look at topics such as Iranian state support for terrorism, its pursuit of nuclear capability and weapons, the implications of this activity for Israel, and their relations with the Iraqi Kurdish region. The United States' role in this conflict is also detailed, including a history if its relations with Iran, policy with Israel, and position as potential mediator. This book offers valuable context that explains the evolution of these relationships rather than simply summarizing the past and present situations, and concludes with thought-provoking policy alternatives for decision makers. Author: Jalil Roshandel, Nathan Chapman Lean Kindle Edition: 186 pages Kindle eBook Company: Praeger (2011-06-02) (2011-06-02) List Price: $35.00 Amazon Price: 
No description availableAuthor: Brian Frederking Kindle Edition: 206 pages Kindle eBook Company: T & F Books UK (2009-01-23) (2009-01-23) List Price: $39.95 Amazon Price: 
American is as war. This is a wartime national security strategy required by the grave challenge we face ? the rise of terrorism fueled by an aggressive ideology of hatred and murder, fully revealed to the American people of September 11, 2001. This strategy reflects our most solemn obligation: to protect the security of the American people.Author: Department of Defence Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook Company: MacMay (2008-04-04) (2008-04-04) List Price: $0.99 Amazon Price: 
Remote sensing from space provides critical data for many commercial space applications. Due to global market demand, it has undergone tremendous growth since the early 1990s. The purpose of this thesis is to assess how thecommercialization of space imagery, since the end of the Cold War, has led to increased intelligence gathering by adversaries, and created a new series of threats against United States overseas and domestic targets. The research performed involves an analysis of the proliferation history of space imaging for growing civilian use, and the threats created by its widely available dissemination and accessibility. The analysis results, together with the findings from a review of commercial programs, initiatives, and remote sensing policy, will be used to develop trends that formulate recommendations in this thesis. Specifically, in order to further develop and protect commercial space imaging capability in the future, remote sensing policy makers, systems engineers, and industry analysts must be aware of the implications to United States National Security. Author: Carrey A. Chin Kindle Edition: 49 pages Kindle eBook Company: (2011-11-01) (2011-11-01) List Price: $2.99 Amazon Price: 
The VI is under-prepared for major natural disasters and terrorism. Many emergency plans are incomplete, based on inaccurate information, wrongly optimistic and assume an infrastructure that does not exist. The VI is at risk to a direct terrorist attack and also subject to whatever secondary consequences result from a stateside attack, because virtually one hundred percent of food, fuel, medicine, and oil used to make electricity and potable water - and tourists, the economy’s lifeblood -- are imported. Also, (1) geographically, help is not readily available from any neighboring city or state; (2) the VI’s first responders are likely to be affected by the same disaster they are responding to and unable to assist; (3) the VI must assume more of the emergency preparedness functions that would typically be shared between neighboring communities; (4) the VI must have more funding than similar communities on the mainland; and (5) preparedness planning must include the importing of mainland resources. The purpose of this thesis is to point out how the VI is different from the mainland U.S. This thesis documents vulnerabilities and shows how the Government’s existing infrastructure is inadequate. Included is discussion of how the police, social issues, and existing VI Government leadership affect the vulnerabilities. It examines existing preparedness plans. One chapter discusses how management can harm Homeland Security while another chapter deals with change and proposes a Terrorism and Natural Disasters Planning Group. Lastly is an Action Plan listing things that can be done immediately.Author: Martin J. Alperen Kindle Edition: 176 pages Kindle eBook Company: (2012-03-30) (2012-03-30) List Price: Amazon Price: 
Richard M. Dolan is a gifted historian whose study of U.S. Cold War strategy led him to the broader context of increased security measures and secrecy since World War II. One aspect of such government policies that has continued to hold the public's imagination for over half a century is the question of unidentified flying objects. UFOs and the National Security State is the first volume of a two-part detailed chronological narrative of the national security dimensions of the UFO phenomenon from 1941 to the present. Working from hundreds of declassified records and other primary and secondary sources, Dolan centers his investigation on the American military and intelligence communities, demonstrating that they take UFOs seriously indeed. Included in this volume are the activities of more than fifty military bases relating to UFOs, innumerable violations of sensitive airspace by unknown craft and analyses of the Roswell controversy, the CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel, and the Condon Committee Report. Dolan highlights the development of civilian anti-secrecy movements, which flourished in the 1950s and 1960s until the adoption of an official government policy and subsequent "closing of the door" during the Nixon administration. Author: Richard M. Dolan Kindle Edition: 516 pages Kindle eBook Company: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc (2002-06-01) (2002-06-01) List Price: $18.95 Amazon Price:
Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have been two of the most critical pillars of peace, stability, and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region for the past thirty years. At the same time, their relationship has fluctuated markedly and unpredictably. Despite the existence of a common ally in the United States and common security threats from the former Soviet Union, China, and North Korea, bilateral relations between Japan and South Korea have been persistently marred by friction.
In the first in-depth study of this puzzling relationship in over fifteen years, the author compares the commonly accepted explanation for this relationship-historical enmity-with one that focuses on policies of the United States as the key driver of Japan-ROK relations. He finds that while history and emotion certainly affect the ways in which Japanese and Koreans regard each other, cooperation and dissension in the relationship are better understood through what he calls a "quasi-alliance" model: two states that remain unallied but have a third party as a common ally. This model finds that the "normal" state of Japan-ROK relations is characterized by friction that stems not only from history, but also from fundamental asymmetries in Japanese and Korean expectations of support from each other. The author shows, however, that in periods when the American defense commitment to the region is weak, Japan-ROK relations exhibit significantly less contention over bilateral issues. Without the prop of U.S. assistance, the two countries are seemingly willing to overlook the usual causes of friction and to adopt a more pragmatic approach. The author discusses the effects of democratization and the post-Cold War era on the triangular relationship, and addresses the prospects of a united Korea and its future relations with Japan, the United States, and China. The book covers the period from 1965 to 1998 and draws on recently declassified U.S. documents, internal Korean government documents, and interviews with former policy makers in the United States, Japan, and Korea.
United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) Employee HandbookOn 1 January 1977, the activation of Headquarters, United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) took place at historic Arlington Hall Station in Arlington, Virginia. INSCOM combined three major building blocks: the U.S. Army Security Agency (communications intelligence and communications security), the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency (counterintelligence and human intelligence), and various local production elements assigned to the Army Chief of Staff for Intelligence. INSCOM began as a world-wide intelligence command composed of multidiscipline intelligence groups located in four diff erent theaters, eight fi eld stations circling the globe, a large intelligence production center located in the Washington, DC area, and a variety of single-discipline units within CONUS. INSCOM provided the Army with a unique capability to conduct multidiscipline intelligence and security operations as well as to provide electronic warfare at echelons above corps. Author: U.S. Military, U.S. Army, United States Army Intelligence and Security Command, INSCOM, D. Kvasnicka, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Government Kindle Edition: 119 pages Kindle eBook Company: www.survivalebooks.com, www.armytechnicalmanuals.com, www.armymilitarymanuals.com (2011-04-29) (2011-04-29) List Price: $0.99 Amazon Price: 
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security Kindle Edition: 395 pages Kindle eBook Company: (2011-03-30) (2011-03-30) List Price: $0.00 Amazon Price: 
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