DICE-man's
Book Club
Forget about Oprah Winfrey and her Book Club!
At the NACIC Seminar held on Thursday,
April 27, 2000,
Ray (I've never been on the Internet) Semko recommended
three books
concerning China and its threat to US security.
Amazingly, all three
are available as e-books!
China Debates the Future Security Environment
("The Yellow Book") by Michael Pillsbury
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/books/pills2.htm
Chinese Views of Future Warfare
by Michael Pillsbury
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/books/chinview/chinacont.html
Sources and Techniques of Obtaining
National Defense Science & Technology Intelligence
by Huo Zhongwen and Wang Zongxiao
translated by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
in Rich Text Format: http://www.impulse.net/~sate/spyguide.rtf
as a ZIP file for faster download: http://www.impulse.net/~sate/spyguide.zip
You can read a 2-part review of this book at the web site of the
National Counterintelligence Center, Langley, VA.
Part I: http://www.nacic.gov/cind/2000/jun00.html#rtoc1
Part II: http://www.nacic.gov/cind/2000/sep00.htm#a
Although he didn't mention it by name this time, Ray has previously
recommended The Art of War by Sun Tsu.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/suntext.htm
At the October 2003 NCIX Seminar held at Naval Base Ventura County,
Port Hueneme, CA, Ray added a couple more items to the "must read" list
for security professionals:
The DOJ Inspector General's report on the Robert Hanssen spy
case
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/oig/hanssen.html
Are You Ready? A Guide to Citizen Preparedness
from FEMA, which brings together facts on disaster survival techniques,
disaster-specific information, and how to prepare for and respond to both
natural and man-made disasters.
http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/
Asymmetric Warfare, the Evolution and Devolution of Terrorism;
The Coming Challenge For Emergency & National Security
Forces by Clark L. Staten
http://www.emergency.com/asymetrc.htm
Bombs by Mail is the U. S. Postal Service's handbook about mail-bombs.
http://www.usps.gov/cpim/ftp/notices/not71.pdf
CIA World Factbook 1999 includes information on geography, people,
government, economy, communications, transportation, military
and transnational issues as well as maps.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ti.html
The Report of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure
Protection,
Critical Foundations: Protecting America's Infrastructures
http://www.info-sec.com/pccip/web/report_index.html
The US Army has published an entertaining and informative
Employees' Guide to Security Responsibilities.
http://www.smdc.army.mil/SecurityGuide/Home.htm
The National Institute of Standards has published
Introduction to Computer Security:
The NIST Handbook (Special Publication 800-12)
http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/nistpubs/800-12/
Other NIST publications are at
http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/nistpubs/
The US Department of State has released it's annual report
Patterns of Global Terrorism 1999
http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/1999report/1999index.html
Although it disappeared from the Web briefly after the 1999 school shootings
at Columbine High School, the classic guerrilla manual didn't stay
gone for long.
The Terrorist's Handbook
http://overthrow.com/terroristhandbook.html
Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession
on the Electronic Frontier by Suelette Dreyfus with research
by
Julian Assange, hardcopy ISBN 1 86330 595 5
http://www.underground-book.com/download.php3
Unrestricted Warfare by Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui
is a February 1999
volume that provides an excellent insight into the mindset
of the People's Libiration Army concerning future conflicts.
http://www.c4i.org/unrestricted.pdf
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