Product Description: Passwords are proving less and less capable of protecting computer systems from abuse. Multifactor authentication (MFA)‹which combines something you know (e.g., a PIN), something you have (e.g., a token), and/or something you are (e...read more

Product Description: Cyberwar brings a whole new meaning to virtual reality. The protection of cyberspace, the information medium, has become a vital national interest because of its importance both to the economy and to military power. An attacker may tamper with networks to steal information for money or to disrupt operations...read more

Product Description: Cyberwar brings a whole new meaning to virtual reality. The protection of cyberspace, the information medium, has become a vital national interest because of its importance both to the economy and to military power. An attacker may tamper with networks to steal information for money or to disrupt operations...read more

Product Description: In May-June 2009, RAND carried out a survey of conditions in Anbar Province, once one of Iraq1s most violent areas. The resulting data on security and the effects of war, public infrastructure, demographics, employment, income and standards of living, education, and housing should foster greater understanding of current conditions in al-Anbar and help identify areas on which to focus future assistance...read more

Product Description: Cyberspace, where information--and hence serious value--is stored and manipulated, is a tempting target. An attacker could be a person, group, or state and may disrupt or corrupt the systems from which cyberspace is built. When states are involved, it is tempting to compare fights to warfare, but there are important differences...read more

Product Description: The U.S. military is ill-equipped to strike at extremists who hide in populations. Using deadly force against them can harm and alienate the very people whose cooperation U.S. forces are trying to earn. To solve this problem, a new RAND study proposes a 3continuum of force2

Product Description: Libicki et al. argue that information collection requirements and systems for counterinsurgency are important because the community that conducts counterinsurgency crosses national and institutional boundaries and because the indigenous population plays a large role in determining the outcome of an insurgency...read more

Product Description: With billions of computers in existence, cyberspace, 'the virtual world created when they are connected,' is said to be the new medium of power. Computer hackers operating from anywhere can enter cyberspace and take control of other people's computers, stealing their information, corrupting their workings, and shutting them down...read more

Product Description: Governments spend billions to protect against terrorism. Might it help to understand what al Qaeda would achieve with each specific attack? This book examines various hypotheses of terrorist targeting: is it (1) to coerce, (2) to damage economies, (3) to rally the faithful, or (4) a decision left to affiliates? This book analyzes past attacks, post hoc justifications, and expert opinion to weigh each hypothesis...read more

Product Description: For the past decade, Chinese military strategists have keenly observed the changes in U.S. national strategy and military transformation. This report examines the constraints, facilitators, and potential options for Chinese responses to U...read more

Product Description: CONTENTS Technology Development as Strategy America in the World Economy - A Network Metaphor Technological Dependence What Makes Industries Strategic to Defense? - How Structure Affects Opportunity Networks of Development The Paradox of Specialization - Network Capital - Developmental Linkages - Corporate and Local Networks - Gateway Nodes in the Linkage Structure - Leading-Edge Sectors as Engines of Growth The Strategic Content of Key Industries Agriculture - Fashion - Chemicals - Motor Vehicles - Semiconductors - Military Aerospace - Implications of Strategic Content Perspectives on Defense Policy The Costs of Dichotomy - The Challenge of Industrial Integration - Acquisition: Systems, Scale, and Factories - Defense Trade Relations - Conclusion - A Paradox Perspectives on Commercial Policy Trade - Standards - Patronage - Foreign Direct Investment - Conclusion National Stakes in the Globalization of Industry The Players - The Stakes - Strategy Is Perspective Abbreviation...read more

Product Description: CONTENTS Acknowledgments Prologue Foundations Precision-Guided Munitions Precision Location A World of Sensors The Potential Proliferation of the Revolution in Military Affairs Conclusion Implications Standoff Warfare Coalition Structures Mud Warfare Conclusions Alternatives Prospects for the Grid The Linear Grid Characteristics Defining the Grid Issues Knowledge Maintenance Presentation Access Security Conclusions Construction Some Difficulties of Top-Down Integration Cutting to the Core Opportunities for Bottom-Up Integration Architecture An Open Grid Planning, Experimentation, and Technology Development Conclusions Conclusions Acronyms About the Autho...read more

Product Description: CONTENTS: Terms The Rising Tidal Wave Military Competition Quiescent Information Technology Ascendent The Logic of Distributed Intelligence Coordination-and-convergence There Will Be Other Changes The Small and the Many Pop-up Warfare The Mesh Fire-Ant Warfare Platforms Against Fire-Ants Broader Implications Conclusions Toward an Information Corps Rationalizing a Corps Information Warfare Functions of a Corps Objections to a Corps Conclusions Wares of War: Hard and Soft Building Swords from Plowshares Fostering Open Systems Software Strategic Competition Unconventional Conflict Rural Conflict Urban Conflict Net States? The Net and its Discontents From Global Village To Global Villager Ghosts in the Net So What? Conclusions: Mesh Versus Net Epilogue: Detours from the Inevitable Futur...read more

Product Description: Analyzes the cost and benefits of updating the International Classification of Diseases. 9th Revision codes for diagonses and procedures to their ICD-10 equivalents.

Product Description: Addresses the challenges of this changed world, the difficulties for defense planning these challenges engender, and new analytic techniques for framing these complex problems.

Product Description: Information warfare, as any casual observer of the Pentagon can attest, remains a hot-button topic in the military community. Thus does war follow commerce into cyberspace, pitting foes against one another for control of this clearly critical high ground...read more

Product Description: The Department of Defense has been successfully exploiting rapidly developing advances in information technology for military gain. On tomorrow's multidimensional battlefield - or "battlespace" - the increased density, acuity, and connectivity of sensors and many other information devices may allow U...read more

Product Description: Information provided to warfighters only gave them broad situational awareness, today, information from sensors and databases can help target past what they can see. This has prompted the Department of Defense (DoD) to build a military analog to the Internet, to be a font of warfighting information and system services...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: By David C. Gompert, et al. Addresses the problem of the growing disparity in combat capability between European and United States forces. Lays out a multi tiered strategy for its solution which is specific and practical, including processes and procedures for implementation. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book examines information technology standards and discusses what they are, what they do, how they originate, and how they evolve. While standards are important in improving system interoperability and thereby increasing economic productivity, they are unlikely to achieve their full potential due to a variety of factors, chief of which is the politics of the standard process itself...read more