Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 The Changing Face of Asymmetric Warfare and Terrorism -- Chapter 2 Risk Assessment: Planning for "Non- patterns" and Potential Risk -- Chapter 3 Threat Prioritization: Seeking to Identify Current and Future Threats -- Chapter 4 Types of Attack: Determining Future Methods of Attack and the Needed Response -- Chapter 5 Threat Assessment and Prioritization: Identifying Threats -- Chapter 6 U. S. Government Efforts to Create a Homeland Defense Capability -- Chapter 7 Federal Efforts by Department and Agency -- Chapter 8 Federal, State, and Local Cooperation -- Chapter 9 How Other Nations Deal with These Threats -- Chapter 10 Lessons from Recent Major Commissions on Terrorism -- Chapter 11 Conclusions and Recommendations -- About the Author.