Maritime Security [Hardcover]

Kenneth Gale Hawkes (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 087033395X | ISBN-13: 978-0870333958 | Publication Date: October 1989 | Edition: 1st

Maritime Security is a timely text that is both comprehensive and analytical. It provides an all-inclusive, singular reference on security principles, tactical procedures, management techniques, and legal ramifications for addressing the topic of maritime security. The book is a well-organized compendium of both rational and economic considerations focusing on the prevention of losses and the management of security breaches.

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About the Author

As the son of a career military officer, Mr. Hawkes grew up traveling and living overseas.

Mr. Hawkes went to sea at the age of 18 as a commercial fisherman aboard a salmon purse seiner in Alaska. Thereafter he attended the University of Washington, in Seattle, on an N.R.O.T.C. scholarship, and in 1972 was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. While in the Marine Corps, Mr. Hawkes served as a ship's security officer and nuclear weapons security officer, where he designed and implemented shipboard security procedures. He was an instructor and training supervisor in such areas as infantry tactics, amphibious warfare, small arms marksmanship, weapons employment, riot control and physical conditioning. He holds a Second Degree Black Belt in the Korean martial art of Tae Kwon Do, and has taught hand-to-hand combat, personal security, and counterterrorist tactics to corporate, civilian, and military personnel.

Mr. Hawkes received his Juris Doctor from the University of Miami in 1979 and was admitted to the Florida Bar the same year. He is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Fifth and Eleventh U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, and federal and state courts in the State of Florida. In 1988 he began devoting full-time attention to writing and consulting. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 367 pages
• Publisher: Cornell Maritime Pr/Tidewater Pub; 1st edition (October 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087033395X
• ISBN-13: 978-0870333958
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,376,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A thorough and thoughtful discussion of the requirements and future challenges for maritime security., July 13, 2005

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M. Conrad Hunter (Southern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maritime Security (Hardcover)

This book focuses not only on integrating the highly complex issues associated with maritime security, but also on the sensitive problem of incorporating imagination to acquire foresight into future threats. As Mr. Hawkes points out, quality intelligence remains a matter of high priority. "...protective measures ...must be capable in all instances of performing two absolutely imperative tasks. They must provide timely and accurate warning of an impending threat, and they must be capable of removing or neutralizing that threat by repelling, capturing, or killing those persons whose actions or intentions constitute it." P 9.

As an excellent example of the methodology for maritime intelligence and special operations, Maritime Security presents a clear, consequential, and linear picture of how properly planned performance can avert disaster. "In-depth security establishes multiple security perimeters or lines of defense through which an attacker, saboteur, hijacker, or other criminal must penetrate... All of the awareness, planning, and preparedness a manager or master may bring to bear is of no value whatsoever if, when the chips are down, people fail to act. Timely reaction cannot exist, by definition, in the absence of action. In order for a crew to act it must be commanded by a master willing to be decisive, and it must have trained to the point where action is almost instinctive." P 11-13.

This book deserves the highest praise for elaborating on principles and insisting on quality control, and is written with a love of the industry in general and the special people involved in particular. Hawkes is obviously one of the small class of maritime intelligence operators who have actually been there. "Two of the toughest security policy decisions faced by any maritime organization involve the employment of security forces and the arming of those forces...If...the threat is not known, but is should reasonably be known, it is negligence (the law does not accept the head-in-the-sand excuse). Once the security threat is recognized or should have been recognized, the maritime operator has a duty under the law to provide reasonable security...Contingency planning and crisis management policies go hand in hand. The key to both is foreseeability...One effective contingency planning tool that can be utilized at various organizational levels is the practice of gaming." P 232-233.

Managers, and commanders cannot ignore the kind of rigorous analysis this book offers without diminishing their efforts and responsibility to provide adequate security.