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Historically, researchers made few attempts to study criminal espionage empirically. The few studies that do exist focus primarily on describing the characteristics of United States citizens who have committed espionage against the United States. The purpose of this dissertation…

Most terrorist groups do not survive past their first few years of existence. All terrorist groups, even those that survive for decades, face a basic and constant existential threat: discovery of their activities, personnel, and plans by government law enforcement and intelligen…

The purpose of this research was to analyze the Iranian computer network operations (CNO) threat to U.S. critical infrastructures and to recommend defensive measures to mitigate those threats. Research revealed organizations across U.S. critical infrastructure sectors were gener…

Strategic denial and deception (D&D) is an advanced tool of statecraft that not only aims to influence the minds of key decision-makers in target countries, but more importantly, results in actions by the deceived that favor the deceiver. As history has shown, when strategic D&D…