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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.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ndu/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

Although he didn't mention it by name this time, Ray has previously 
recommended The Art of War by Sun Tsu.
http://www.religiousworlds.com/taoism/suntext.html

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

CIA World Factbook includes information on geography, people,  government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues as well as maps.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

The Report of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection,
Critical Foundations: Protecting America's Infrastructures
http://www.tsa.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/Infrastructure.pdf

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 releases it's annual report
Patterns of Global Terrorism
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/

Although it disappeared from the Web briefly after the 1999 school shootings
at Columbine High School, these classic guerrilla manuals didn't stay gone for long.
The Terrorist's Handbook
http://www.capricorn.org/~akira/home/terror.html
The Anarchist's Cookbook
http://www.anarchist-cookbook.com/

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