Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Terrorism and WMD in the Contemporary Operational Environment (U.S. Army TRADOC G2 Handbook 1.04) - CBRN Threat, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, Dirty Bomb
    Unavailable
    Terrorism and WMD in the Contemporary Operational Environment (U.S. Army TRADOC G2 Handbook 1.04) - CBRN Threat, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, Dirty Bomb
    Unavailable
    Terrorism and WMD in the Contemporary Operational Environment (U.S. Army TRADOC G2 Handbook 1.04) - CBRN Threat, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, Dirty Bomb
    Ebook350 pages4 hours

    Terrorism and WMD in the Contemporary Operational Environment (U.S. Army TRADOC G2 Handbook 1.04) - CBRN Threat, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, Dirty Bomb

    By Progressive Management

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Terrorism and WMD in the Contemporary Operational Environment is a supplemental handbook to the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, TRADOC G2 capstone reference guide on terrorism, TRADOC G2 Handbook No. 1, A Military Guide to Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century. Understanding terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) span foreign and domestic threats in strategy, tactics, and targets in a full spectrum contemporary operational environment (COE). Terrorism against the United States of America could include use of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high yield explosive (CBRNE) weapons. This informational handbook supports operational missions, institutional training, and professional military education for U.S. military forces in the War on Terrorism (WOT). This document promotes an improved understanding of terrorist objectives and motivation, and terrorist intention to use WMD. Compiled from open source materials, this handbook promotes a "Threats" perspective and enemy situational awareness of U.S. actions in combating terrorism. This handbook exists primarily for U.S. military members in operational units and installation-institutional activities. Other groups of interest include interdepartmental, interagency, intergovernmental, civilian contractor, or nongovernmental, private volunteer, and humanitarian relief organizations, and the general citizenry.
    Study of contemporary terrorist motivations and behavior, terrorist goals and objectives, and knowledge of terrorist historical or emergent tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) improves training awareness and readiness. A selected bibliography presents citations for detailed study of specific terrorism topics. Unless stated otherwise, nouns or pronouns do not refer exclusively to a specific gender.

    INTRODUCTION * Purpose * Defining Terrorism * Scoping the Issue: Terrorism and WMD * Understanding Operational Environment * SECTION I: CBRN THREATS AND TERRORISM * Recognizing the CBRN Threat Spectrum * Appreciating WMD Terror in the COE * Describing Threats and WMD * Assessing Terrorist Vulnerabilities * SECTION II: WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION * General * Dual Use and WMD Danger * Chemical Weapons * Toxic Industrial Material (TIM) * Biological Weapons * Categories of Biological Warfare Agents * Dissemination of Effects * Masking a Biological Danger * Radiological Weapons * Categories of Radiological Dissemination * "Dirty Bomb" Danger * Nuclear Weapons * Peril of Nuclear Material * Sinister "Suitcase" Phobia * High Yield Explosives * Simple Means with Mass Effects * SECTION III: CBRN TERRORISM IN THE COE * Know the Enemy and WMD Capability * Prepare for Action: Deployed, In-Transit, and Institutional Forces * CBRN Trends in the Foreseeable Future * The War on Terror and Way Ahead

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherProgressive Management
    Release dateJan 13, 2015
    ISBN9781310804182
    Unavailable
    Terrorism and WMD in the Contemporary Operational Environment (U.S. Army TRADOC G2 Handbook 1.04) - CBRN Threat, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, Dirty Bomb
    Author

    Progressive Management

    Progressive Management: For over a quarter of a century, our news, educational, technical, scientific, and medical publications have made unique and valuable references accessible to all people. Our imprints include PM Medical Health News, Advanced Professional Education and News Service, Auto Racing Analysis, and World Spaceflight News. Many of our publications synthesize official information with original material. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work to uniformly present authoritative knowledge that can be rapidly read, reviewed or searched. Vast archives of important data that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. The e-book format makes a great reference work and educational tool. There is no other reference book that is as convenient, comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and portable - everything you need to know, from renowned experts you trust. Our e-books put knowledge at your fingertips, and an expert in your pocket!

    Related to Terrorism and WMD in the Contemporary Operational Environment (U.S. Army TRADOC G2 Handbook 1.04) - CBRN Threat, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, Dirty Bomb

    Related ebooks

    Politics For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Can We Achieve Nuclear Adulthood?

      May 7, 2020

      "I'll never tire of repeating: We need to demilitarize world affairs, international politics and political thinking." What if a world leader -- someone with extraordinary power, even, my God, control over nuclear weapons -- were to talk this way? Wel

      4 min read

    • Article

      War, Irony And The New Normal

      Apr 16, 2020

      The uber-irony about the deadly coronavirus is that, as it claims lives, endangers millions and interrupts the social normal, threatening unprecedented global chaos, it is also quietly informing us what we must do to create a better world -- and, ind

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: Nukes, Lies And Invisible Murder

      Jun 3, 2021

      Let’s listen in for a moment to the gentle, awkward language of mass killing: “The employment or threat of employment of nuclear weapons could have a significant influence on ground operations. . . . Integration of nuclear weapons into a theater of o

      3 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: Moral Intelligence Or Nuclear War

      Jul 15, 2021

      Let’s dance at the border! One of these days, something will give — the rich, the powerful will suddenly look around cluelessly. What’s happening? Awareness will sweep across the planet: We are one, and life is sacred. This consciousness will even in

      4 min read

    • Article

      Wars and Rumors of Wars

      Aug 3, 2017

      One month after the election, President-elect Donald Trump made a "victory tour" of states that had helped deliver his surprise win. In Fayetteville, North Carolina, Trump introduced his choice for Secretary of Defense, Gen. James Mattis, and pledged

      2 min read

    • Article

      Nuclear Hubris

      Jan 16, 2020

      One thing that becomes clear to me when I wander into the world, and the minds, of geopolitical professionals -- government people -- is how limited and linear their thinking seems to be. When I do so, an internal distress signal starts beeping and w

      4 min read

    • Article

      Ask a Scientist: Confronting Putin’s Nuclear Threat

      Jan 12, 2023

      To get a better understanding of the likelihood of Putin reversing his latest position on using nuclear weapons in Ukraine and the fallout—in every sense of the word—if he did, I turned to Eryn MacDonald, an analyst with the Union of Concerned Scien

      9 min read

    • Article

      On The Vine

      May 31, 2019

      On The Vine
      5 min read

    • Article

      Commentary: COVID-19 May Be Teaching The World A Dangerous Lesson: Diseases Can Be Ideal Weapons

      Nov 18, 2020

      The devastation COVID-19 has wrought on the U.S. population is staggering. Yet the risks it poses to our national security are also chilling: Diseases are, in many terrible ways, ideal weapons. Many high-level national security leaders have contracte

      3 min read

    • Article

      Nuclear Déjà Vu

      Aug 5, 2023

      Nuclear Déjà Vu
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Dirty Bomb Is Not a Nuclear Bomb

      Nov 17, 2022

      One place to begin sorting out this confusion is in clarifying the distinctions among different types of nuclear risk.

      7 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: Depleted Uranium Won’t Bring Peace To Ukraine

      Sep 7, 2023

      Freedom’s just another word for . . . blowing up your children? Giving them cancer? Militarism is obsolete, for God’s sake. Its technology is out of control. The latest shred of news that has left me stunned and terror-stricken is this, as reported b

      3 min read

    • Article

      Nuclear Déjà Vu

      Aug 4, 2023

      Nuclear Déjà Vu
      3 min read

    • Article

      War, Profit And The Coronavirus

      Mar 12, 2020

      If you want expertise, don't bother reading any further here. I know as much about coronavirus as any stunned disbeliever with a sudden, irresistible urge to touch his face. This is a news story that's spookily personal -- far more personal, somehow,

      4 min read

    • Article

      Dangerous Liaisons

      Nov 22, 2020

      It is not just pathogens that can escape the lab. The most dangerous escapes so far are not microbes, but information; not biohazards, but information hazards. These can take the form of dangerous data that is freely available, like the published gen

      2 min read

    • Article

      How To Fight A War q+a With Dr Mike Martin

      Jan 19, 2023

      War is a complicated and destructive force that has consumed and bedevilled humanity for many thousands of years. Many commanders across history have made terrible decisions on how to conduct warfare, leading to innumerable military and civilian deat

      9 min read

    Reviews for Terrorism and WMD in the Contemporary Operational Environment (U.S. Army TRADOC G2 Handbook 1.04) - CBRN Threat, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, Dirty Bomb

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words