Currently there are several definitions of asymmetric threats listed throughout the internet as well as other literature. The definition that best sums up the meaning in my view is leveraging unconventional tactics against a superior opponent with the goal of disrupting the willingness to achieve the operational objectives. The most common and current example of this would be the insurgency tactics used in Iraq and Afghanistan. The United States must not assume those tactics and strategies will only be used abroad. The same asymmetric threats our country’s security initiative is facing are the same challenges are seaports are facing. Some examples of the potential asymmetric threats the United States seaport faces are nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological weapons, and terrorism.
Nuclear Weapons are one the key components for countries/states to be considered as a world superpower. Just the possession of a nuclear weapon guarantees a country a position of negations with other world powers. Countries like the United States and United Kingdom have an invested interest on who has those capabilities to avoid such negotiations. The ever going crisis with North Korea is a perfect example of the United States diligence to avoid an unaccountability of nuclear weapons potential threat. The employment of a nuclear weapons on a seaport would greatly slow or deter the deployment process for operating military functions. The injuries, casualties and infrastructure damage would be significant, therefore any successful attempt would cripple any military or commercial cargo operation.
In comparison to nuclear weapons, chemical weapons are less damaging, but are easier to acquire. Both threats could be delivered in a containe...
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...ked, the port customs team will be required to inspect the shortfall. An automated system would track the status (checked/unchecked) from beginning to end. At the port of embarkation a US customs team will work in conjunction with local customs officials to ensure the accuracy of the program.
The current technology being used for screening and examining the content of containers is excellent. The non-intrusive (x-ray devices), physical inspections, and container tracking are all great tools and all counties should continue to use such resources.
The largest obstacle with my proposed plan would be funding. The United States would have to remain firm with countries that export goods into the US. Customs programs should fall under federal funding; therefore the exporting countries government would have to make a decision on the economic future of their country.
World trade. Is something we need, Wal-Mart is an active participant i world trading allwin us to get the best deal of any import
The Trident Submarine houses twenty-four nuclear warheads with each having a range of 4,600 miles over land. If a nuclear war were to break out between the Soviet Union and the United States, virtually every major city could be destroyed in a matter of hours. The origin of these major players in modern day warfare lies in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
History has proven the use of chemical weapons ranging back for decades. From the Greeks in ancient Europe using Greek fire to South American tribes using a form of tear gas made of grounded up hot chili peppers to scare away enemy tribes. As well as dipping the tips of spear heads with a poisonous toxin. Poisonous toxins used from live reptiles like frogs and venom from the snakes found from whichever region had enough potency venom to exterminate. The past has proven, that in order for Armies to survive and win, it relied on out smarting the enemy. New technologies and the evolution of weaponry were left to the brightest minds from those eras to develop.
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...ive and more powerful if these weapons were in action. With these facts stated, I believe that chemical warfare should be un-ban and affectively used in today’s warfare.
Clark, D. K. (1959). Effectiveness of chemical weapons in WWI. Bethesda, Md.: Operations Research Office, Johns Hopkins University.
We are told, "To love thy neighbour" and "To treat." our enemies, as we would want to be treated. " If you were to look at these commandments you would see that nuclear warfare could never be justified, and if you do provoke a nuclear war, you should be punished. That brings me into the second reason why countries retain nuclear weapons and that is a threat. It is a way of protecting your country, but you will protect yourself and retaliate if provoked.
In order to give the reader a sense of the role of the Chemical Corps in the U.S. Army it is paramount to give a brief history of the Chemical Corps. The Chemical Corps came to fruition during World War I, at the behest of General John Pershing because of the Germans use of chemical agents. However, during a period in the 1970’s the Chemical Corps was very close to being terminated. In 1973 the Army decided it did not need the Chemical Corps and recommended reducing it in size and eventually wanted to merge it with the Ordnance Corps (Hilmas, Smart, & Hill, n.d.). The Army disestablished the chemical school at FT. McClellan, but Congress blocked the complete disestablishment of the Chemical Corps (Hilmas, Sm...
Nuclear Arms, as opposed to conventional arms, generate their destructive force from nuclear reactions. The issues that are related to the use of nuclear weapons is also far different than the issues generated by conventional bombs. The long term
... Aviation History, 23(6), 50-65. Retrieved from http://ehis.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=2e489df0-5604-49cf-8709-9359f8a1feee%40sessionmgr4003&vid=3&hid=4211 Pita, R. (2009). Toxin weapons: From World War I to jihadi terrorism. Toxin Reviews, 28(4), 219-237.
From the creation of nuclear weapons at the start of the Cold War to today, the world has experienced struggles fueled by the want of nuclear power. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Iran’s nuclear weapon program are some of the most important conflicts over nuclear weapons. Thanks to the use of nuclear weapons in 1945 to end World War II, the world has come extremely close to a nuclear war, and more countries have began developing nuclear power. Unmistakably, many conflicts since the start of the Cold War have been caused by nuclear weapons, and there are many more to come.
Governments from other countries should be able to work things out and settle business without fearing that someone will be threatened with a nuclear war. These weapons have a very high percent of total destruction, other countries do not think about when they use these fatal weapons as an excuse, of what they will really do when sending the bombs off. They are only thinking of defending themselves no matter what the consequences are, little do they know that it could come back and bite them in the butt. Nuclear weapons will not only cause destruction to one country but all of them. Banning these dangerous weapons will make sure that these excuses will no longer be a problem to the world, countries and nations will not have to fear if they are putting the entire world in
destination in the same condition as they began their journey, though other layers must be put in place to achieve a more comprehensive level of safety for vehicle and cargo transit. Lost or resting cargo containers and vehicles
Topic One - Weapons of Mass Destruction: Weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) include a wide range of arms that fall under the category of being nuclear, biological, or radioactive/chemical in nature . Due to their destructive nature, WMDs can prove to be detrimental and devastating to the international community should they fall into the wrong hands and used for harmful and damaging purposes. In order to maintain balance and peace between all states, it is imperative that DISEC finds a way to restrict and prevent any potential of WMDs becoming a threat.
It is a well-known fact that the dropping of the two atomic bombs near the end of World War II in 1945 ushered in the dawn of the Atomic Age. For the first time in human history, the world was introduced to the awesome power of nuclear weapons. Since that time, there have been several different nuclear threats to the world, and one of those threats can be found along the Pacific Rim, in the country of North Korea. Like the dropping of the atomic bombs, it is also known that the North Korean government has admitted to possessing nuclear weapons, and in doing so, it stands as a silent, potential nuclear danger to the rest of the world.