| Technology Security and National Power: Winners and Losers Contributor(s): Bryen, Stephen D. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1412862671 ISBN-13: 9781412862677 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Science & Technology Policy - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Political Science | Security (national & International) |
| Dewey: 338.973 |
| LCCN: 2015016989 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 328 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In Technology Security and National Power, Stephen D. Bryen shows how the United States has squandered its technological leadership through unwise policies. Starting from biblical times, he shows how technology has either increased national power or led to military and political catastrophe. He goes on to show how the US has eroded its technological advantages, endangering its own security. The scope ofTechnology Security and National Power extends across 3,000 years of history, from an induced plague in Athens to chemical weapons at Ypres to an atomic bomb on Hiroshima to the nuclear balance of terror. It describes new weapons systems and stealth jets, cyber attacks on national infrastructure, the looting of America's Defense secrets, and much more. The core thesis is supported by unique insight and new documentation that reaches into today's conflicted world. More than a litany of recent failures and historical errors, this book is a wake-up call for political actors and government officials who seem unable to understand the threat. Technology Security and National Power proposes that the United States can again become a winner in today's globalized environment. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bryen, Stephen D.: - Stephen D. Bryen is a leading expert on technology security and led the Pentagon's technology policy efforts during the Reagan administration where he was a senior official and first director of the Defense Technology Security Administration. He has also served on the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as a Commissioner on the US-China Economic Security Review Committee. In the private sector he was the North American president of a large aerospace and defense and high technology company. He is a noted writer and commentator. Morley Safer of the CBS Program 60 Minutes said: -Dr. Bryen was the Pentagon's top cop, the man whose job it was to ensure that sensitive technology would be kept from enemies, potential enemies and questionable allies.- Eileen Shannon of Time magazine called Steve Bryen the -Yoda of the arms trade. Formerly the Defense Department's export czar, he knows every sinkhole in the regulatory swamp. Ignore him at your peril.- |