TERRORISM: Commentary on Security Documents Volume 111
Discerning President Obama's National Security Strategy
Published on 28. January 2011
Book
Hardback
588 pages
978-0-19-975819-7 (ISBN)
Description
Volume 111 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, Discerning President Obama's National Security Strategy, makes available documents from the first fifteen months of the Obama administration that provide insights into its developing national security strategy. Included are documents that include detailed intelligence estimates and strategies as well as documents that outline important lessons regarding stability and reconstruction in Iraq. Additional documents provide valuable insight into the Obama Administration's Afghanistan and Pakistan Strategy. General Editor Douglas Lovelace, an expert in U.S. military matters, elucidates the complexities of military spending and of counter-insurgency tactics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1275 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-975819-7 (9780199758197)
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Douglas Lovelace is the Director of the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College. Earlier in his military career, he worked on national security directives. He holds an MBA degree from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and a JD from Widener School of Law.
Kristen E. Boon is Director of International Programs at Seton Hall University School of Law. Her writings have appeared in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and the New York University Journal of International Law. A former clerk to the Supreme Court of Canada's Justice Ian Binnie, she holds an M.A. in Political Science from McGill University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Aziz Huq teaches at the University of Chicago Law School and was recently Director of the Liberty and National Security Project at NYU Law School's Brennan Center. He previously clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and served as Senior Consultant Analyst for the International Crisis Group.
Kristen E. Boon is Director of International Programs at Seton Hall University School of Law. Her writings have appeared in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and the New York University Journal of International Law. A former clerk to the Supreme Court of Canada's Justice Ian Binnie, she holds an M.A. in Political Science from McGill University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Aziz Huq teaches at the University of Chicago Law School and was recently Director of the Liberty and National Security Project at NYU Law School's Brennan Center. He previously clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and served as Senior Consultant Analyst for the International Crisis Group.
Content
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- A. INTELLIGENCE UNDERPINNINGS OF THE OBAMA NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
- Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., Esq.
- DOCUMENT NO. 1: The National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, Washington, D.C., August 2009
- DOCUMENT NO. 2: Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, Washington, D.C., February 2, 2010
- B. LESSONS INFORMING THE OBAMA NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
- Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., Esq.
- DOCUMENT NO. 3: Hard Lessons: the Iraq Reconstruction Experience, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., Washington, D.C., February 3, 2009
- DOCUMENT NO. 4: Applying Iraq's Hard Lessons to the Reform of Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations, Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., Washington, D.C., February 2010
- C. THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN STRATEGY
- Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., Esq.
- DOCUMENT NO. 5: White Paper of the Interagency Policy Group's Report on
- U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, the White House, Washington, D.C., March 27, 2009
- DOCUMENT NO. 6: Afghanistan and Pakistan Regional Stabilization Strategy, U.S. Department of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Washington, D.C., January 2010
- D. OTHER INDICATORS OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
- Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., Esq.
- DOCUMENT NO. 7: Summary of the White House Review of the December 25, 2009 Attempted Terrorist Attack, The White House, Washington, D.C., January 7, 2010
- DOCUMENT NO. 8: Presidential Memorandum Regarding 12/25/2009 Attempted Terrorist Attack, The White House, Washington, D.C., January 7, 2010
- DOCUMENT NO. 9: Department of Homeland Security: Actions Taken Toward Management Integration, but a Comprehensive Strategy Is Still Needed, United States Government Accountability Office report, Bernice Steinhardt and David C. Maurer, Washington, D.C., November 2009
- DOCUMENT NO. 10: Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism Report Card, Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, Washington, D.C., January 2010
- DOCUMENT NO. 11: National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats, the White House, National Security Council, Washington, D.C., November 2009
- DOCUMENT NO. 12: Ballistic Missile Defense Review Report, Office of the Secretary of Defense, United States Department of Defense, Robert M. Gates, February 2010
- DOCUMENT NO. 13: The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, The White House, Washington, D.C., March 3, 2010
- DOCUMENT NO. 14: Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative: Legal Authorities and Policy Considerations, Congressional Research Service Report, Washington, D.C., March 10, 2010
- DOCUMENT NO. 15: Nuclear Posture Review Report, Office of the Secretary of Defense, United States Department of Defense, Robert M. Gates, April 2010
- SUBJECT INDEX