For college students, military personnel, and police counterterrorist units, Sweet (strategic intelligence, security, and terrorism, U. of Maryland, University Campus), a retired lieutenant colonel with the US air force, provides a handbook on terrorism and safety concerns relating to commercial aviation and airport security, from a law enforcement and military perspective. She provides a history of the aviation industry, discusses hijacking and government responses, and describes major terrorism conventions and protocols, terrorist organizations, and counterterrorism units, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies and their strategies. She also addresses airport screening, the use of private versus government security personnel, detection devices and technology, cargo security, and rights and the law, as well as a comparing US and foreign domestic law. This edition has been updated to include an analysis of modern day risks. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)