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Warfare in Peacetime offers an expansive and elaborated portrait of overseas proxy wars. The stru... more Warfare in Peacetime offers an expansive and elaborated portrait of overseas proxy wars. The structure and substance will prepare observers, analysts, and participants seeking to understand challenges before American and other statesmen. The work helps frame the morass in Syria, with all its foreign links; the contest for influence in Libya, where innumerable hands vie for dominance; the fighting in Yemen, where Houthi Shia organizations backed by Iranian sponsors battle Sunni tribes; and life along the borders of Russian expansionism, where Ukrainians plea for outside assistance, including weapons from Washington. Such ongoing “warfare in peacetime” has a thousand precedents in a dozen ages, including our day, and some of the patterns are explored along with detailed case studies.

The European Legacy, 2021

A Citizen’s Guide to Terrorism and Counterterrorism, 2020

Choice Reviews Online, 2014

Part I: The Threat. 1. We Americans Remain Vulnerable to Terrorist Attack 2. The Nature of the En... more Part I: The Threat. 1. We Americans Remain Vulnerable to Terrorist Attack 2. The Nature of the Enemy Today. 3. Barriers to Our Own Defense. Part II: The Strategy. 4. Components of our Grand Strategy: Diplomacy, Intelligence, Economics, Law & Law-making, the Military. 5. The Current Published Counterterrorism Strategy. Part III: The Future. 6. What Needs to be Done. 7. What Citizens Can Do. 8. How Other Terrorist Groups Have Been Defeated. Additional Resources.

Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets

Handbook of International Relations

Some social scientists and theorists believe the use of the word terrorism reflects only the prej... more Some social scientists and theorists believe the use of the word terrorism reflects only the prejudices and self-interested opinions of "establishment" elites and Westerners. But Bourti is a proud terrorist who offered the opinions quoted above to an Algerian journalist, whom he mistook for an ally. Everything he said confirms the profound seriousness of the ideas behind terrorist acts and the global fight against international terrorism. Within one generation, our world has seen millennium bomb plots; the 9/11 attacks; devastating bombings in Ankara, Bali, and Casablanca; well-sequenced multiple explosions on transit systems in Britain and Spain; and "complex attacks" in which infantry tactics were used against the innocent in public places such as Mumbai, or were combined with improvised explosive devices, as is frequently done in Iraq. The calculation required to accomplish all such killings is sometimes openly betrayed in the speech that frames terrorists&#39...

Routledge Handbook of Democracy and Security, 2020

FANATICISM AND CONFLICT IN THE MODERN AGE, 1963

Cass Series on Political Violence, 2007

Political Communication, 1992

... Saima Jonsson, a Swede, worked in a Lebanese refugee camp, a humane activity that provided go... more ... Saima Jonsson, a Swede, worked in a Lebanese refugee camp, a humane activity that provided good cover for acting as a courier between the Middle ... He took up with Kahil al-Wazir, or Abu Jihad, who was, at that time, enrolled in law school at Alexandria University and had ...

Policy Review, 2007

WE ARE IN A hard march in rough country. The "Global War on Terrorism" requires patienc... more WE ARE IN A hard march in rough country. The "Global War on Terrorism" requires patience and perseverance, and yet notes of pessimism have become audible among our ranks as citizen-soldiers. This is not surprising. After five years we still have not caught up with fugitive Osama bin Laden. Hard-working military officers wonder aloud if the polity back home will keep supporting its military services. Politicians sound more and more partisan. Academics are no better: A professor at Harvard declares that the president's war on terror has been a "disaster," while at a conference in Washington in September two well-known national security analysts say we are "losing" the war on terror. In fact, there are good reasons to judge that we are winning this global war against terrorists. And not only because we have arrested or killed two-thirds of the middle- and lower-level leaders, as well as some of their superiors and commanders. It is because terror group...

Toward A Grand Strategy Against Terrorism is a cohesive series of essays prepared by noted academ... more Toward A Grand Strategy Against Terrorism is a cohesive series of essays prepared by noted academics and counterterrorism practitioners within and associated with the counterterrorism program of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. These chapters address both the use of military force and the employment of non-military tools, the role of international cooperation, and the importance of the ideological contest. Collectively, they push toward a grand strategy against terrorism. This volume makes the prudence and research and experience of the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies available to all who want to help in countering terrorism: students; those at military graduate schools; private experts on security in the business world; members of police forces and defense departments; conflict resolution experts; and many other sorts of practitioners seeking a sober and highly international approach.