This book is in full color and is designed for reference and training of any party assigned to maritime security and/or defense duties. The book is easily understood and suitable for multicultural crews. Most photos and all illustrations are original by the author. Basic Maritime Security and Defense: This book is a revision of the author's university certificated course of instruction for use in training maritime professionals assigned maritime security duties whether aboard ship or ashore. It is loaded with the information necessary to understand and cope with piracy, terrorism, crime, and civil unrest. The course is also a familiarization source for working in an armed offshore environment. This is a no nonsense book for a no nonsense reader. The book deals with such topics as the use of a ship's systems in defense, searches, various attacks and defensive methods, and the handling of a support vessel in a security role. This book is ideal for the reader who desires real insight into our maritime, the security problems the industry faces, the methods used to protect it, and new techniques designed not for the military or law enforcement but for the maritime industry in its civilian context. The professionals who have taken this course says that they had no idea that the subject was so complex.

This set of manuals provides the text for maritime security and defense courses that are certificated by Nova Southeastern University and are considered by members of the maritime insurance industry as being an important training component for maritime risk management programs. This set is suitable for both the individual maritime professional as well as organizational training programs. Maritime security and defense are daily endeavors. They are also dynamic and require training upon which an effective and consistent foundation must be built. Personnel assigned to maritime security and defensive duties will find in this set the basic information necessary to build such a foundation. The Basic Manual provides essential information of identifying and dealing with a broad variety of threats. Designed for the unarmed ship security team which may be augmented by an armed private security team, the set includes essential information about piracy, terror and other threats; the attack; the defense; team structure and management; security decision-making; basic tactics; and survival techniques. The basic firearms training manual provides essential information for the effective use of firearms onboard and avoidance of unnecessary casualties resulting from inadequate training. Personnel assigned to unarmed security duties will find the information important as well. Maritime firearms training check-off sheets are provided.

Incidents of piracy doubled in number from 2008 to 2009, highlighting the need for stronger measures to combat the problem. At the same time, the threat from terrorist actions in the maritime environment also represents an increasingly worrying trend. This book presents the proceedings of the NATO Centre of Excellence u Defence Against Terrorism (COE-DAT) Advanced Research Workshop, entitled aeMaritime Security and Defence Against TerrorismAE, held in Ankara, Turkey, in November 2010. The workshop consisted of four sessions: threats in the maritime environment; vulnerabilities and sensitivities of maritime security; combating the threats to maritime security and maritime terrorism; and lastly, Turkey's contribution to global maritime security. Each of the presentations was followed by a debate, with the 10 experts from five countries joining the group of international participants to discuss the issues raised together; the aim of the workshop being to facilitate awareness of the issues in NATO and affiliated countries.Representing a significant contribution to finding the way forward in maritime security, this book will be of interest to all those whose work involves them in countering piracy and the terrorist threat in the maritime environment.

To offer security in the maritime domain, governments around the world need the capabilities to directly confront common threats like piracy, drug-trafficking, and illegal immigration. No single navy or nation can do this alone. Recognizing this new international security landscape, the former Chief of Naval Operations called for a collaborative international approach to maritime security, initially branded the "1,000-ship Navy." This concept envisions U.S. naval forces partnering with multinational, federal, state, local and private sector entities to ensure freedom of navigation, the flow of commerce, and the protection of ocean resources. This new book from the National Research Council examines the technical and operational implications of the "1,000-ship Navy," as they apply to four levels of cooperative efforts: U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and merchant shipping only; U.S. naval and maritime assets with others in treaty alliances or analogous arrangements; U.S. naval and maritime assets with ad hoc coalitions; and U.S. naval and maritime assets with others than above who may now be friendly but could potentially be hostile, for special purposes such as deterrence of piracy or other criminal activity.

International Maritime Security Law by James Kraska and Raul Pedrozo defines an emerging interdisciplinary field of law and policy comprised of norms, legal regimes, and rules to address today's hybrid threats to the global order of the oceans. Worldwide shipping commerce, fishing fleets, pleasure craft, and coastal states are exposed to the menace of offshore terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, piracy, smuggling, robbery, marine insurgency and anti-access threats. Land-based institutions and maritime constabulary forces operate within an increasingly integrated network that blends elements of humanitarian law, human rights law, criminal law, and law of the sea, with inspection regimes, commercial enterprise, and marine safety and environmental stewardship. The new authorities fuse together a global maritime partnership among states, international organizations and commercial interests to protect the maritime commons from the most dangerous risks and hazards.

This new handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the issues facing naval strategy and security in the twenty-first century. Featuring contributions from some of the world’s premier researchers and practitioners in the field of naval strategy and security, this handbook covers naval security issues in diverse regions of the world, from the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean to the Arctic and the piracy-prone waters off East Africa’s coast. It outlines major policy challenges arising from competing claims, transnational organized crime and maritime terrorism, and details national and alliance reactions to these problems. While this volume provides detailed analyses on operational, judicial, and legislative consequences that contemporary maritime security threats pose, it also places a specific emphasis on naval strategy. With a public very much focused on the softer constabulary roles naval forces play (such as humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, naval diplomacy, maintenance of good order at sea), the overarching hard-power role of navies has been pushed into the background. In fact, navies and seapower have been notably absent from many recent academic discussions and deliberations of maritime security. This handbook provides a much-desired addition to the literature for researchers and analysts in the social sciences on the relationship between security policy and military means on, under, and from the sea. It comprehensively explains the state of naval security in this maritime century and the role of naval forces in it. This book will be of much interest to students of naval security and naval strategy, security studies and IR, as well as practitioners in the field.