The Terrorism Ahead: Confronting Transnational Violence in the Twenty-first Century

It is the product of thorough research and study plus a decade's worth of vigorous debate with an international cast of students, colleagues (Smith is currently a professor at the Naval War College), counterterrorism practitioners, and academic specialists. It would have been interesting, therefore, if he had added a discussion of emerging and predicted advances in technologies-such as nanotechnology and genetic engineering-that may provide future tools for terrorists.