Women in Homeland Security
Book Club
Open to all members, WHS bookclub meets once a month to discuss a book related to homeland security or terrorism. Suggestions welcome!
This month's extraordinary read is: Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the 21st Century
counterterrorism experts in the United States, has studied the networks that comprise terrorism today. In the post-September 11 world, Al Qaeda is no longer the central organizing force that aids or authorizes terrorist attacks or recruits terrorists. It is now more a source of inspiration for terrorist acts carried out by independent local groups that have branded themselves with the Al Qaeda name. Building on his previous groundbreaking work on the Al Qaeda network, forensic psychiatrist Marc Sageman has greatly expanded his research to explain how Islamic terrorism emerges and operates in the twenty-first century.
Securing Global Transportation Networks
by Luke Ritter
A comprehensive look at what we need to assure supply chain security.
Paris 1919
by Margaret MacMillan
Recommended by Frances Fragos Townsend during her talk with WHS Paris 1919 describes the decisions and divisions that created the world -- and its challenges -- as we know it today.
Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi
Read about a book club in Tehran risking everything to read books from the west.
The Test of Our Times
by Governor Tom Ridge
Join us to read and discuss former DHS Secretary Ridge's book, his insights and how his observations comport with what is happening under the new Administration.
Three Cups of Tea
by Greg Mortenson
The incredible journey of Greg Mortenson who, through his work, is building peace from the ground up by educating girls in the remotest regions of Pakistan.
Learn more at www.threecupsoftea.com
Infidel
by Aayan Hirsi Ali
Somali born Aayan Hirsi Ali went from an arranged marriage to the Dutch parliament by escaping her native country. Read her amazing journey in this amazing book.
