Emerging Threats and Security Planning How Should We Decide What Hypothetical Threats to Worry About?

• Main Author: Jackson, Brian A. (auth)
• Other Authors: Frelinger, David R. (auth), Bushman, Charles J. (auth), Willis, Henry H. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2009
• Subjects: Terrorism, armed struggle; Political Science
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Concerns about how terrorists might attack in the future are central to the design of security efforts to protect both individual targets and the nation overall. This paper explores an approach for assessing novel or emerging threats and prioritizing which merit specific security attention and which...