Résumé
The authors argue that government anti-terrorism policies must pay much more attention to reducing opportunities for terrorist attacks by protecting vulnerable targets, controlling the tools and weapons used by terrorists, and by removing the conditions of everyday life that make these attacks possible. While some of this work is done on an ad hoc basis, there are no recognized methods to guide the work, there is limited experience on which to draw, and the government has no trained professionals to oversee the work. In this book, the authors address these deficiencies, and lay out a systematic approach for reducing opportunities for terrorism. They show that in order to protect the country from terrorists, security forces must do what the terrorists do: identify vulnerable targets, analyze their specific weaknesses, consider the tools and weapons needed to attack, and evaluate access to the targets. Once these steps are taken, security agencies can then outsmart the terrorists by providing appropriate protection, limiting accessibility, preparing to combat and recover after a potential attack.
Contenu
1. The gap in our defenses. -- 2. Think terrorist. -- 3. The key role of opportunity. -- 4. Airliner hijackings: the lessons of reducing opportunity. -- 5. Suicide bombings, step by step. -- 6. Dynamics of terrorist decisions. -- 7. Targets. -- 8. Weapons. -- 9. Tools. -- 10. Facilitating conditions: the nuclear example. -- 11. Targets--near and far. -- 12. Taking it to them--when far is near. -- 13. Terror in three English cities. -- 14. Confusing near and far: crisis planning in the United States. -- 15. A framework for prevention. -- 16. Situational techniques and publicity. -- 17. Implementing a program of situational prevention. -- 18. Becoming smarter.