New Era in U.S. National Security

The purpose of The New Era in U.S. National Security: Challenges of the Information Age is to make its readers aware of how the tensions between opposing forces from above and below influence world events and shape U.S. national security institutions. The debt trap now being experienced by the developing world has unleashed global migration on a mass scale. In a world where market forces are politically unaccountable, crime will prosper, and its linkage to organizing social structures is organic. The nexus between corrupt politicians, transnational business, and cross-border crime pulls tighter.

Meanwhile, the structures of global governance are immature. Differences of agreement over international norms and controls regarding the use of the Internet, and the laws pertaining to the deployment of cyber weapons are illusive - if not insurmountable. The chasm between the rich and poor is widening and deepening. Hostilities continue mount.

In this book, Jack A. Jarmon offers a survey of the altering landscape of warfare and competition. Using recent events and documented experiences as examples, it reveals truths about the threat from criminals, terrorists, hostile governments, and internal vulnerabilities. The nation’s exposure invites attack with every hour. Rather than an abstract threat, these unseen and unreported assaults land blows to our information networks, infrastructure, quality of life, and democratic system.

Jack A. Jarmon has taught international relations at the University of Pennsylvania, the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University, and Rutgers University where he was also Associate Director of the Command, Control and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis - a Center of Excellence of the Department of Homeland Security (Science and Technology Division). During Russia’s economic transition period, he was USAID technical advisor for the Russian Federation central government. He worked for the Russian Privatization Committee in the mid 1990s and with such organizations as the US Russia Investment Fund, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, and various money center banks.

Dr. Jarmon’s private sector career includes global consultant firms, technology companies, and financial institutions. He was a manager with Arthur Andersen in Moscow and Director of Strategic Alliances at Nortel Networks, Brampton, Ontario. He studied Soviet and Russian affairs at Fordham University and the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. Jarmon is fluent in Russian and holds a doctorate degree in global affairs from Rutgers University.

Dr. Jarmon is the coauthor (with Bruce Newsome)of A Practical Introduction to Homeland Security and Emergency Management and The Cyber Threat and Globalization: The Impact on U.S. National and International Security (with Pano Yannakogeorgos).