From the pages of Recent titles Agricultural Bioterrorism: A Federal Strategy to Meet the Threat Agricultural in the McNair MCNAIR PAPER 65 Bioterrorism: Paper series: A Federal Strategy to Meet the Threat 64 The United States ignores the The Strategic Implications of a Nuclear-Armed Iran Agricultural potential for agricultural bioter- Kori N. Schake and rorism at its peril. The relative Judith S. Yaphe Bioterrorism: ease of a catastrophic bio- weapons attack against the 63 A Federal Strategy American food and agriculture All Possible Wars? infrastructure, and the devastat- Toward a Consensus View of the Future Security to Meet the Threat ing economic and social conse- Environment, 2001–2025 quences of such an act, demand Sam J. Tangredi that the Nation pursue an aggres- sive, focused, coordinated, and 62 stand-alone national strategy to The Revenge of the Melians: Asymmetric combat agricultural bioterrorism. Threats and the Next QDR The strategy should build on Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr. counterterrorism initiatives already underway; leverage exist- 61 ing Federal, state, and local pro- Illuminating HENRY S. PARKER grams and capabilities; and Tomorrow’s War Martin C. Libicki
involve key customers, stake- PARKER holders, and partners. The U.S. 60 Department of Agriculture The Revolution in should lead the development of Military Affairs: this strategy. Allied Perspectives Robbin F. Laird and Holger H. Mey Institute for National Strategic Studies National Defense University About the Author NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY President: Vice Admiral Paul G. Gaffney II, USN Henry S. Parker is National Program Leader for Aquaculture at the Vice President: Ambassador Robin Lynn Raphel Agricultural Research Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture and has INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES served in several other positions related to aquaculture and marine science. Director: Stephen J. Flanagan Dr. Parker is a former associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and instructor at the University of Rhode Island, where he earned PUBLICATION DIRECTORATE a master’s degree in marine affairs and a doctorate in biological oceanography. Director and Editor, Joint Force Quarterly: Robert A. Silano He retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of captain. Dr. Parker researched General Editor, NDU Press: William R. Bode and wrote this paper while attending the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Supervisory Editor, NDU Press: George C. Maerz where he was a distinguished graduate. He is the author of Exploring the Oceans National Defense University Press (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985). ATTN: NDU–NSS–PD