The Shield and the Cloak: The Security of the Commons

Hart, Gary

ISBN 10: 0195306163 / ISBN 13: 9780195306163

Editore: Oxford University Press (edition 1), 2006

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• Titolo: The Shield and the Cloak: The Security of the Commons
• Editore: Oxford University Press (edition 1)
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195306163
• ISBN 13: 9780195306163
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1.
• Condizione: New
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta

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Riassunto

Gary Hart has long been one of the nation's foremost experts on national security, combining a deep knowledge of national security policy with first-hand experience of the political realities that influence how America safeguards itself and its interests. In his new book, Hart outlines, in clear, simple prose, the fundamental changes with which America must grapple when confronting a terrorist threat that has no state and no geographic homebase and thus offers no genuine target for the world's largest and most sophisticated military force.

Security can only be achieved, Hart argues, by applying new tactics, new players, and a nuanced understanding of the radical changes in the security environment. The old security required massive weapons in massive numbers. The new security requires special forces, individual warrior teams seeking out terrorists in the most remote corners of the world and in the heart of American cities, as well as cooperation among intelligence services. The old security required economic dominance. The new security requires economic integration in a world of international markets, trade, and finance. The new security will be both national and international, defensive and offensive, and will require a shield for the homeland as well as a cloak of non-military security.

Informazioni sull?autore

Gary Hart represented Colorado in the U.S. Senate from 1975 to 1987. He is the author of seventeen books, has taught at Yale, and lectured at the University of California and Oxford University, where he earned a doctor of philosophy degree in politics in 2001. As co-chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century, he was credited with forecasting a 9/11-type attack. He resides with his family in Kittredge, Colorado.