By Yonah Alexander and Tyler B. RichardsonTerror on the High Seas: From Piracy to Strategic Challenge is a provocative look at maritime security and the steps that must be taken if terrorist threats are to be nullified. From the Achille Lauro hijacking to the bombing of the USS Cole to attacks on shipping channels by Somali pirates, terrorists have employed a variety of tactics, both successful and unsuccessful. These have included the smuggling of arms and plots to bomb shipyards, as well as attacks on Merchant Marine ships, maritime offices, fuel storage facilities, and Navy personnel, ships, and facilities, both on shore and in port.
Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2010 13:30
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By Dr. James Giordano and M.V. Boswell This book, edited and written by leading scholars in the field(s) of neuroscience, ethics, law and healthcare policy, provides a unifying perspective of how a philosophical understanding of pain and medicine gives rise to the ethics and policies of pain care. Toward these ends, the chapters shed light on how pain and the experience of the patient and clinician establish the moral obligations of pain medicine, and the conditions necessary to enact pain care on a global scale. In this context, the authors consider possible ethical systems and approaches that are important to, and viable for pain medicine, and provide perspectives into the ways that moral obligations and practical realties are wedded to (and should underscore) any and all practice guidelines, health policy, and laws. In these ways, this volume provides erudite discussions of how contemporary knowledge of pain could and should influence the moral values, and conduct, tenor and value(s) of medical practice, and how this knowledge might serve as a foundation upon which to construct policies toward a more meaningful, patient-centered pain medicine in the future.
About the Author
Editor, James Giordano, PhD is Professor of Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Ethics at the Institute for Psychological Sciences, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, and Fellow, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, UK, and is the Director of the Center for Neurotechnology Studies, and Chair of the Academic Programs at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, in Arlington, VA (USA). His research is focused upon the molecular and behavioral neuroscience of pain and analgesia; the neurophilosophy of pain and mind, and the neuroethics of pain research and treatment. Editor, Mark V. Boswell, MD, PhD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Director of the International Pain Center, at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, in Lubbock, Texas. His clinical and research interests focus upon neuroanesthesia, acute, chronic and neuropathic pain disorders, and the roles and practices of interventional pain management and palliative care.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 October 2009 16:09
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By Frank Hoffman and Chris Brown 
The salience of counter-insurgency theory is a significant issue in current national security policy. Ongoing operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and parts of Africa and Asia reflect the acute need to understand counter-insurgency, and complex stability operations. The United States Marine Corps has worked from a doctrinal and educational foundation that has consistently afforded institutional agility to adapt and better meet the demands of irregular warfare.
In Counter-Insurgency: Past, Present and Future, military expert and strategist Frank Hoffman illustrates this adaptation, offers insight to the U.S. Marine Corps’ history in counter-insurgency, and analyzes recent experience in Iraq as an example of best practices, possible limitations, and potential delimitations. Through case study analysis, and illustration of counter-insurgency theory, Hoffman provides in-depth insights to new Army and Marine Corps counter-insurgency techniques, and discusses how these concepts of counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency approaches may be applicable both today and in the future.
This book will be available for purchase via Amazon in Fall 2009.
Last Updated on Thursday, 24 September 2009 15:03
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A. Alan Moghissi, Betty Love, Sorin Straja, Dennis McBride and Michael SwetnamThis book is the culmination of three decades of insight from experts in the scientific and policy worlds who have developed a process to enable not only scientists but also non-scientists to clearly and easily assess scientific information. Policymakers, judges, government agency staff, lawmakers, scientists, and others must constantly balance scientific, social, economic, political, emotional and other considerations when making a decision. However, they are often "on their own" to determine the validity and applicability of scientific and technical data. Now they can use the Best Available Science concept to ask themselves, "How reliable is the information in front of me? What is the level of maturity of the underlying science, and can I make a sound decision based on it?" Authored by Dr. A. Alan Moghissi, Betty Love, & Sorin Straja from the Institute for Regulatory Science and Dennis McBride and Michael Swetnam from the Potomac Institute, Best Available Science isolates scientific issues from others at play in policymaking. It provides a framework for understanding the validity of scientific information that can be universally understood. It gives decision makers a simple assessment system to most effictively utilize scientific information. It also separates science from areas that are outside of the purview of science. As we continue to strive for excellence in both science and policy in an ever-changing landscape, this guide, Best Available Science, is a must-have resource. It arms you with the ability to make the best decision possible with the best available information. This guide can also be used as a tool for scientists to more clearly communicate with policy makers and help them to "speak the same language."
Last Updated on Thursday, 03 December 2009 11:55
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