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New PDF release: Evaluating Novel Threats to the Homeland: Unmanned Aerial

By Brian A. Jackson,David R. Frelinger,Michael J. Lostumbo,Robert W. Button

ISBN-10: 083304169X

ISBN-13: 9780833041692

adjustments in expertise and adversary habit will at all times produce new threats that has to be assessed through safety and fatherland safety planners. An instance of this type of novel risk is using cruise missiles or unmanned aerial autos (UAVs) by means of terrorist teams. person threats can't be assessed in isolation, despite the fact that, considering adversaries continually have many strategies for staging assaults. to ascertain this risk, RAND applied a ?red research of choices? technique, in which the advantages, expenditures, and dangers of alternative techniques are thought of from the viewpoint of a possible adversary. For different types of assaults, the suitability of those structures used to be in comparison opposed to different strategies. This technique might help protection planners know how the services that diversified assault modes offer tackle key adversary operational difficulties. Given the insights this research produced approximately whilst those platforms may most likely be most popular via an attacker, RAND explored shielding innovations to deal with the chance. UAVs and cruise missiles symbolize a ?niche probability? inside of a bigger probability context; for that reason, defenses have been sought that offer universal defense opposed to either this and different uneven threats. The monograph concludes with a dialogue of cross-cutting classes approximately this danger and the evaluation of novel threats in general.

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