Spies Against Armageddon

Spies Against Armageddon
Author: Dan Raviv
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-03
Genre: Intelligence service
ISBN: 9780985437893

Authors' names reversed in original Hebrew printing.

Israel's Secret Wars

Israel's Secret Wars
Author: Ian Black
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 664
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802132864

A documented, comprehensive history of all three of Israel's intelligence services, from their origins in the 1930s, up to the present.

Understanding Iran

Understanding Iran
Author: William R. Polk
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 023010343X

"New introduction and afterword"--Cover.

Lights Out

Lights Out
Author: Ted Koppel
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2015
Genre: Book clubs (Discussion groups)
ISBN: 055341996X

A nation unprepared : surviving the aftermath of a blackout where tens of millions of people over several states are affected.

Outsourcing War to Machines

Outsourcing War to Machines
Author: Paul J. Springer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2018-02-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Military robots are affecting both the decision to go to war and the means by which wars are conducted. This book covers the history of military robotics, analyzes their current employment, and examines the ramifications of their future utilization. Robotic systems are the future of military conflicts: their development is already revolutionizing the nature of human conflict-and eroding the standards of acceptable behavior in wartime. Written by a professor who teaches strategy and leadership for the U.S. Air Force, one of the global leaders in the development and utilization of military robots, this book both addresses the history of military robotics and discusses the troubling future ramifications of this game-changing technology. Organized both chronologically and thematically, the book's chapters describe the development and evolution of unmanned warfare; clarify the past, current, and future capabilities of military robotics; and offer a detailed and convincing argument that limits should be placed upon their development before it is too late. This standout work presents an eye-opening analysis that military personnel, civil servants, and academic instructors who teach military history, social policy, and ethics can ill afford to ignore, and will also provide the general public with information that will correct misconceptions about military robotics derived through popular culture and the news media.

2016 8th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon)

2016 8th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon)
Author: IEEE Staff
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781509007158

In today s increasingly complex cyberspace we see a variety of actors struggling to gain or maintain their position The ubiquitous use of information and communication technologies has had a profound influence on how these actors pursue their goals and interests The 8th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon 2016) will focus on cyber power as one of the core elements of relations between different stakeholders and will discuss how the traditional concept of power applies to cyberspace Both hard and soft power are being employed to achieve strategic and political goals through technical, legal and economic means But how can we assess such power? How can we ensure that such power remains in the right hands? How can we ensure or enforce cyber power without risking conflict escalation? How can we respond to exercises of this power with the right tools and measures? Is there a way to maintain a balance of power in cyberspace?

Air Operations in Israel's War Against Hezbollah

Air Operations in Israel's War Against Hezbollah
Author: Benjamin S. Lambeth
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 083305841X

In response to a surprise incursion by Hezbollah combatants into northern Israel and their abduction of two Israeli soldiers, Israel launched a campaign that included the most complex air offensive to have taken place in the history of the Israeli Air Force (IAF). Many believe that the inconclusive results of this war represent a "failure of air power." The author demonstrates that this conclusion is an oversimplification of a more complex reality. He assesses the main details associated with the Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF's) campaign against Hezbollah to correct the record regarding what Israeli air power did and did not accomplish (and promise to accomplish) in the course of contributing to that campaign. He considers IAF operations in the larger context of the numerous premises, constraints, and ultimate errors in both military and civilian leadership strategy choice that drove the Israeli government's decisionmaking throughout the counteroffensive. He also examines the IDF's more successful operation against the terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip in December 2008 and January 2009, to provide points of comparison and contrast in the IDF's conduct of the latter campaign based on lessons learned and assimilated from its earlier combat experience in Lebanon.--Publisher description.

Cyber Blockades

Cyber Blockades
Author: Alison Lawlor Russell
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2014-09-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1626161127

Cyber Blockades is the first book to examine the phenomena of blockade operations in cyberspace, large-scale attacks on infrastructure or systems that aim to prevent an entire state from sending or receiving electronic data. The author defines the concept of cyber blockades and presents a comparison of blockade operations in five different domains.

The New Nuclear Forensics

The New Nuclear Forensics
Author: Vitaly Fedchenko
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2015
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0198736649

Nuclear material changes its form and properties as it moves through the nuclear fuel cycle, from one facility to another. Each step of the fuel cycle or each use of the material will inevitably leave its mark. The science of determining the history of a sample of nuclear material through the study of these characteristics is known as nuclear forensics. While nuclear forensic analysis has normally been associated with investigations and prosecutions in the contextof trafficking of nuclear materials or nuclear terrorism, it had wider applications in in national security contexts, such as nuclear non-proliferation, disarmament, and arms control. The New Nuclear Forensics is the first book to give a definitive guide to this broader definition of nuclear forensic analysis. This book describes the various methods used in nuclear forensics, giving first a broad introduction to the process followed by details of relevant measurement techniques and procedures. In each case, the advantages and limitations are outlined. To put these methods in context, the book also recounts the history of the discipline anddescribes the diverse contemporary applications of nuclear forensics.