Intermodal Maritime Security is a solid exploration of the human and technological aspects of risk and risk mitigation within and around the waterborne supply chain. It is also, frankly, a scary treatise, as it describes many potential security weak points and how criminals and/or terrorists could exploit them. As an example, one of the contributing authors lays out a hypothetical plan in which terrorists posing as pirates could intercept a ship by spoofing GPS signals, drawing it off course. Under the guise of a pirate attack, the terrorists board and later abandon the ship after they have inserted a dirty bomb into a container that later explodes in a US port. Another chapter does a credible job of describing landside supply chain disruptions, such as putting a device on railroad tracks to block or destroy a critical rail tunnel. Calling this a scary treatise may be an understatement.
However, this...
