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Assignment: Evaluate each source using the TRAP Method.
- Timelines
- Reliability
- Authority
- Purpose
Question: Establish and rank the authority of each source to speak on military and national security. Provide a brief narrative reflecting on your experience to research, organize, and assess sources.
1) America's Cyber Future: Security and Prosperity in the Information Age was published on June 6, 2011, by Kristin M. Lord who is Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security. She received her MA and PhD in government from Georgetown University and her BA in international studies from American University. This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. there are no spelling grammar errors. America's Cyber Future: Security and Prosperity in the Information Age, and the source is very trustworthy.
2) The New American Militarism was published by Oxford University Press and was updated edition on April 22, 2013, by Andrew J. Bacevich. Andrew is a Professor of History and International Relations at Boston University. A graduate of West Point and a Vietnam Veteran, he has a doctorate in history from Princeton and was a Bush Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He wrote several books such as Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, and the New York Times best-seller The Limits of Power. For this edition, Bacevich has written a new Afterword where he emphasizes the change in American militarism for the past five years. He explores the function of this ideology under Barack Obama. Despite such rhetoric, Bacevich powerfully suggests, the attitudes and arrangements giving rise to the new American militarism remain intact and inviolable as ever. His writing is informative and powerful with no spelling grammar errors.
3) The Big Stick was issued by Basic Books; 1st edition (January 3, 2017). Eliot A. Cohen is professor of strategic studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. He previously served on the policy planning staff of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and as an intelligence officer in the US Army Reserve, and he taught at the US Naval War College and at Harvard University. The subjects of his books and articles are related on a variety of military and national security. His book is very informative and very trustworthy.