TERRORISM: Commentary on Security Documents, Volume 104 : Current Trends

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents provides primary-source documents on the worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Chief among the documents collected are transcripts of Congressional testimony, reports by such federal government bodies as the Congressional Research Service and the Government Accountability Office, and case law covering issues related to terrorism. Most volumes carry a single theme, and inside each volume the documents appear within topic-based categories. The series also includes a subject index and other indices that guide the user through this complex area of the law. Doug Lovelace, Director of the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College, prepares U.S.-based volumes. Kristen E. Boon (Seton Hall School of Law) and Aziz Huq (University of Chicago School of Law) prepare the international and foreign volumes.Volume 104: Current Trends surveys the strategic, economic, and intelligence trends in the U.S.''s global effort to combat terrorism. General Editors Doug Lovelace, Kristen Boon and Aziz Huq take a close look at how technological developments have impacted strategic and intelligence trends, especially. He also presents documents and related commentary that assess the dramatic cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents Volume 104: Current Trends brings readers up to date on the major trends in U.S. counter-terrorism efforts. In this volume, General Editors Doug Lovelace, Kristen Boon and Aziz Huq categorize the selected documents into three realms: strategic trends, economic trends, and intelligence trends. In the strategic realm, Lovelace provides helpful commentary on such underreported national security threats as the threat of conventional arms posed by developing countries. The main economic trend that this volume explores is the immense economic burden created by the US military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. The last section of this volume presents the latest information on how technology is improving the intelligence capabilities of the U.S. military.In particular, Volume 104 (Current Trends) details how the U.S. military has adjusted its counter-terror strategy in light of the Global War on Terrorism''s open-ended, seemingly endless nature. Lovelace''s commentary and document selection also reveal the problem the U.S. federal government faces in its commitment to insure victims of terrorism for their losses. Lastly, this volume shows how the U.S. intelligence community has now sought to improve its effectiveness by studying the non-terrorist criminal steps that extremist groups take in preparation for an attack.