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Record Nr.

UNINA9910220158303321

Autore

Jackson Brian A. <1972->

Titolo

Emerging threats and security planning : how should we decide what hypothetical threats to worry about? / / Brian A. Jackson, David R. Frelinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Monica, CA, : RAND, 2009

ISBN

1-282-45116-2

9786612451164

0-8330-4864-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 19 pages)

Collana

Occasional paper (Rand Corporation)

Altri autori (Persone)

FrelingerDave

Disciplina

355

355.033573

355/.033573

Soggetti

National security - United States - Planning

Terrorism - United States - Prevention

Strategic planning - United States

United States Defenses Planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Preface; Contents; Tables; Summary; Emerging Threats and Security Planning: How Should We Decide What Hypothetical Threats to Worry About?; The Variety of Emerging Threats Challenging Security Planning; Framing a Middle-Ground Approach to Addressing Emerging Threats; Identifying Niche Threats; Prioritizing Emerging Threat Scenarios; Conclusions: Security Planning for the Niche and the Novel; References

Sommario/riassunto

Concerns about how terrorists might attack in the future are central to the design of security efforts to protect both individual targets and the nation overall. In thinking about emerging threats, security planners are confronted by a panoply of possible future scenarios coming from sources ranging from the terrorists themselves to red-team brainstorming efforts to explore ways adversaries might attack in the future. This paper explores an approach to assessing emerging and/or novel threats and deciding whether --or how much--they should



concern security planners.