Book Review: A Woman’s Place: U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11 by Joana Cook
Cook’s work increases the accessibility of gendered security studies and bridges the gap between academic work and government actions.
Reviewed by Beth Windisch
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Book Review: Inside the Enemy’s Computer: Identifying Cyber-Attackers by Clement Guitton
Expanding cyber-domain conflicts challenge modern strategists to create definitive attribution standards for who did what to whom, especially in developing national policy.
By Mark T. Peters II, USAF, Retired
Book Review: Out of the Whirlwind; Supply and Demand After Hurricane Maria by Philip J. Palin
Palin develops fictional characters amalgamated from interviews and real-world experiences to describe varying supply chain concepts and effects during the post-Maria recovery. The result is an engaging, novel-like narrative that highlights the importance of post-disaster supply-chain resilience.
Reviewed by Kristopher Thornburg
Book Review: How to Think About Homeland Security: The Imperfect Intersection of National Security and Public Safety by David H. McIntyre
Since its relatively recent establishment, homeland security as an organizing concept for government services has received its share of criticism and scrutiny. David H. McIntyre attempts to address this problem head-on in his book How to Think About Homeland Security: The Imperfect Intersection of National Security and Public Safety
Reviewed by Caleb Cage
Book Review: Spying: Assessing US Domestic Intelligence Since 9/11 By Darren E. Tromblay
This book is a welcome addition to the rather small literature on domestic and homeland intelligence in the United States. It will interest more than just intelligence specialists, because Tromblay addresses broader homeland security issues, focusing especially on the FBI and DHS, and the book would serve as a useful introduction to those agencies.
Reviewed by Erik Dahl
Book Review: Illusions of Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism by Richard English
Very little actually is known about the interaction between powerful states and individuals, groups, and loose networks of violent extremists devoted to violent acts of aggression.
Reviewed by Scott Romaniuk
Book Review: Preventing and Countering Extremism and Terrorist Recruitment: A Best Practice Guide by Hanif Qadir
A parent logs into a child’s computer and a chat room window pops up on the screen. The parent starts scrolling through the chat history and realizes that the child was speaking to an ISIS recruiter. In this hypothetical situation, the child has not conducted any crime, yet the parent is worried. What should the parent do?
Reviewed by Caitlin Ambrozik
Book Review: A Practitioner’s Way Forward: Terrorism Analysis by David Brannan, Kristin Darken, and Anders Strindberg (Salinas, CA: Agile Press, 2014)
This short (141 pages) and very readable book is a good introduction to some of the most useful concepts and best practices for terrorism analysis.
Reviewed by Erik J. Dahl
Book Review: The Siege of Mecca by Yaroslav Trofimov (New York: Doubleday, 2007)
Matthew Magolan reviews the book, The Siege of Mecca, by Yaroslav Trofimov (New York: Doubleday, 2007).
Reviewed by Matthew Magolan
Book Review: James Phelps, Jeff Dailey, and Monica Koenigsberg, Border Security (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2014)
Robert J. Bunker reviews the book, Border Security, by James Phelps, Jeff Dailey, and Monica Koenigsberg. (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2014)
Reviewed by Robert J. Bunker
