Stephen Sloan / Robert J. Bunker
Red Teams and Counterterrorism
- University of Oklahoma Press
- 2011
- Taschenbuch
- 218 Seiten
- ISBN 9780806141831
Using red teams in today's counterterrorism training Keeping ahead of terrorists requires innovative, up-to-date training. This follow-up to Stephen Sloan's pioneering 1981 book, Simulating Terrorism, takes stock of twenty-first-century terrorism-then equips readers to effectively counter it. Quickly canvassing the evolution of terrorism-and of counterterrorism efforts-over the past thirty years, co-authors Sloan and Robert J. Bunker draw on examples from the early 2000s, following the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, to emphasize the need to prevent or respond quickly to "active aggressors"-terrorists who announce their presence and seek credibility through killing. Training for such situations requires realistic simulations-whose effectiveness, the authors show, depends on incorporating red teams; that is, the groups that play the part of active aggressors. In Red Teams and
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