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Book Synopsis The Counterterror Coalitions by : Nora Bensahel
Download or read book The Counterterror Coalitions written by Nora Bensahel and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-term success of the counterterror campaign will depend on concerted cooperation from European states, but a key question is the extent to which that cooperation should be pursued through European multilateral institutions. This study argues that the United States should pursue military and intelligence cooperation on a bilateral basis, and it should increasingly pursue financial and law enforcement cooperation on a multilateral basis. The United States should adopt a nuanced strategy in its counterterror relations with Europe.
Book Synopsis The Counterterror Coalitions by : C. Christine Fair
Download or read book The Counterterror Coalitions written by C. Christine Fair and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2004 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks, Air Force Chief of Staff General John Jumper asked RAND Project AIR FORCE to conduct a study entitled "Thinking Strategically About Combating Terrorism." This year-long project was divided into four research tasks, each tackling different but complementary aspects of the counterterrorism problem: (1) Threat assessment: identifying the character and boundaries of the threat; (2) The international dimension: assessing the impact of coalition and other international actors on U.S. options; (3) Strategy: designing an overarching counterterror strategy; and (4) Implications for the Air Force: identifying promising applications of air and space power. This report is part of a series on international counterterror cooperation, building on the research of the second project task. Other reports in this series will examine the different functional areas of international cooperation against terrorism, counterterror cooperation with Russia and the states of the former Soviet Union, and counterterror cooperation with the countries of Europe. Although these reports address a wide variety of subjects, they build on a common principle: counterterror cooperation occurs across numerous issue areas, including military, financial, law enforcement, and intelligence. An effective counterterror strategy will need to address each of these dimensions and account for some of the synergies and frictions among them. This report details the findings of building counterterrorism coalitions with two important states in South Asia: Pakistan and India. The partnerships with these states have been critical to U.S. operations in Afghanistan and beyond, albeit for very different reasons. Specifically, this report examines the following: Pakistan's historic and present cooperation with the United States, India's historic and present cooperation with the United States, and the potential of Kashmir to disrupt efforts to engage both India and Pakistan.
Book Synopsis Coalitions Between Terrorist Organizations by : Eli Karmon
Download or read book Coalitions Between Terrorist Organizations written by Eli Karmon and published by Brill Nijhoff. This book was released on 2005 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the conditions that favor the formation of coalitions between international terrorist organizations, and how they function within the changing international system.
Book Synopsis Coalitions Building and Maintenance by : Andrew J. Pierre
Download or read book Coalitions Building and Maintenance written by Andrew J. Pierre and published by Study of Diplomacy. This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Terrorism and Counterintelligence by : Blake W. Mobley
Download or read book Terrorism and Counterintelligence written by Blake W. Mobley and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing the challenges terrorist groups face as they multiply and plot international attacks, while at the same time providing a framework for decoding the strengths and weaknesses of their counter-intelligence, Blake W. Mobley offers an indispensable text for the intelligence, military, homeland security, and law enforcement fields.
Book Synopsis Insurgent Terrorism by : Victor Asal
Download or read book Insurgent Terrorism written by Victor Asal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Imagine getting on the bus to go from one major city to another. It had been a long week and all you wanted to do is get home and take a nap while doing that. Imagine falling asleep and enjoying the rest on the bus. Now imagine as the bus is driving up a mountain you wake to hearing someone scream out something incoherent and you can feel the bus swerve to the right and through a road barrier and over the side of the mountain. Some of the people you are with on the bus fly out the window as it crashes down the mountain into a ravine while others fly around the bus slamming into each other, into metal and into shattering glass. As the bus slams down you can feel parts of your body break and you see other people die in front of you. You then lose consciousness. When you wake, you are lying outside the bus with glass and screaming people around you just above a bus that is now with its roof on the ground. Besides your own pain you can see the dead, the dying and the broken people all around you and dozens of people streaming down the valley to come help you and the people around you"--
Book Synopsis Leadership Decapitation by : Jenna Jordan
Download or read book Leadership Decapitation written by Jenna Jordan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the central pillars of US counterterrorism policy is that capturing or killing a terrorist group's leader is effective. Yet this pillar rests more on a foundation of faith than facts. In Leadership Decapitation, Jenna Jordan examines over a thousand instances of leadership targeting—involving groups such as Hamas, al Qaeda, Shining Path, and ISIS—to identify the successes, failures, and unintended consequences of this strategy. As Jordan demonstrates, group infrastructure, ideology, and popular support all play a role in determining how and why leadership decapitation succeeds or fails. Taking heed of these conditions is essential to an effective counterterrorism policy going forward.
Book Synopsis Countering Terrorist Recruitment in the Context of Armed Counter-Terrorism Operations by : S. Ekici
Download or read book Countering Terrorist Recruitment in the Context of Armed Counter-Terrorism Operations written by S. Ekici and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorism is not a new phenomenon, but almost all communities, regardless of ethnicity, religion, social status or location, are now increasingly facing the challenge of terrorist threat. What makes a terrorist organization attractive to some citizens? A better understanding of the reasons why individuals choose to join terror groups may well enhance efforts to disrupt the recruitment process of terrorist organizations and thereby support current and future counter-terrorism initiatives. This book presents the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, 'Countering Terrorist Recruitment in the Context of Armed Counter-Terrorism Operations', held in Antalya, Turkey, in May 2015. The goal of the workshop was to share existing ideas and develop new ones to tackle terrorist recruitment. The book contains 18 articles covering topics which include: the role of NATO and other international entities in counter-terrorism; understanding recruitment methods and socialization techniques of terror networks by comparing them to gangs; social media in terrorist recruitment; drug money links with terrorist financing; and counter-terrorism and human rights. The book will be of interest to all those involved in developing, planning and executing prevention programs and policies in relation to both armed and non-armed counter-terrorism operations.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism by : V.S. Subrahmanian
Download or read book Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism written by V.S. Subrahmanian and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorist groups throughout the world have been studied primarily through the use of social science methods. However, major advances in IT during the past decade have led to significant new ways of studying terrorist groups, making forecasts, learning models of their behaviour, and shaping policies about their behaviour. Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism provides the first in-depth look at how advanced mathematics and modern computing technology is shaping the study of terrorist groups. This book includes contributions from world experts in the field, and presents extensive information on terrorism data sets, new ways of building such data sets in real-time using text analytics, introduces the mathematics and computational approaches to understand terror group behaviour, analyzes terror networks, forecasts terror group behaviour, and shapes policies against terrorist groups. Auxiliary information will be posted on the book’s website. This book targets defence analysts, counter terror analysts, computer scientists, mathematicians, political scientists, psychologists, and researchers from the wide variety of fields engaged in counter-terrorism research. Advanced-level students in computer science, mathematics and social sciences will also find this book useful.
Book Synopsis Terrorism Today by : Christopher C. Harmon
Download or read book Terrorism Today written by Christopher C. Harmon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this best-selling insight into terrorism today has been fully updated and revised to include what the author terms the new ‘militant Moslem international.’ Drawing directly on the words and ideas of terrorists themselves, this book is an examination of patterns, current trends and future threats in terrorism worldwide. It explores the ideology and psychology, the politics and policies, the strategies and operations of many active small groups and major insurgencies. The terrorist leader emerges as a calculating, innovated and often well-educated person whose use of violence against the innocent is calibrated for maximum effects. The closing chapter is a stimulating discussion of the problems of counter-terrorism, making several key recommendations. Terrorism Today will be essential reading for students of terrorism, counter-insurgency and international security.
Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of U.S. Counterterrorism and Irregular Warfare Operations by : Michael A. Sheehan
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of U.S. Counterterrorism and Irregular Warfare Operations written by Michael A. Sheehan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook comprises essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the topic of U.S. counterterrorism and irregular warfare campaigns and operations around the globe. Terrorist groups have evolved substantially since 9/11, with the Islamic State often described as a pseudo-state, a terrorist group, and insurgency all at the same time. While researchers', analysts', and policymakers’ understanding of terrorism has grown immensely over the past two decades, similar advancements in the understanding of counterterrorism lag. As such, this handbook explains why it is necessary to take a broader view of counterterrorism which can, and often does, include irregular warfare. The volume is divided into three thematic sections: Part I examines modern terrorism in the Islamic world and gives an overview of the major terrorist groups from the past three decades; Part II provides a wide variety of case studies of counterterrorism and irregular warfare operations, spanning from the 1980s to the irregular warfare campaign against the Islamic State in northern Syria in 2018; Part III examines the government instruments used to combat terrorism and wage irregular warfare, such as drones, Theater Special Operations Commands, and Theater Commands. The handbook fills a gap in the traditional counterterrorism literature by its inclusion of irregular warfare and by providing analyses from academic experts as well as practitioners. It will be of much interest to students of counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, U.S. national security, military affairs, and International Relations. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-US-Counterterrorism-and-Irregular-Warfare-Operations/Sheehan-Marquardt-Collins/p/book/9780367758363, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Book Synopsis From Freedom Fighters to Jihadists by : Vera Mironova
Download or read book From Freedom Fighters to Jihadists written by Vera Mironova and published by Causes and Consequences of Ter. This book was released on 2019 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, thousands of pro-democracy rebel groups spontaneously formed to fight the Assad regime. Years later, the revolution was unrecognizable as rebel opposition forces had merged into three major groups: Jabhat al-Nusra, Ahrar al Sham, and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Why did these three groups rapidly increase in size and military strength while others simply disappeared? What is it about their organizational structure and their Islamist ideology that helped group manage their fighters so successfully? With these questions at the forefront, this book examines the internal organization of armed groups and, in particular, their human resources. Analyzing the growth of these groups through the prism of a labor market theory, this book shows that extreme Islamist groups were able to attract fighters away from more moderate groups because they had better internal organization, took better care of fighters both physically and monetarily, experienced less internal corruption, and effectively used their Islamist ideology to control recruits. With unparalleled access and extensive ethnographic research drawn from her interviews and her year embedded with Iraqi Special Operation forces, Mironova delves deep into the ideological and practical nexus of some of the most radical groups in the Middle East. This book brings together more than 600 survey-interviews with local civilians and fighters on the frontline in Syria and a dataset of human resource policies from 40 armed groups; it is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants insight into the on the ground functioning of rebel organizations.
Book Synopsis Terrorism and Counterterrorism by : Brigitte Lebens Nacos
Download or read book Terrorism and Counterterrorism written by Brigitte Lebens Nacos and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface p. ix About the Author p. xiv Chapter 1 Introduction: The Terrorist Threat p. 1 Terrorism Trends Over the Last Three Decades p. 5 Part 1 Terrorism p. 15 Chapter 2 The Perennial Debate: What Is Terrorism? p. 17 The Meaning of Terrorism Over Time p. 19 The Definitional Potpourri p. 20 Obama Administration: Downplaying the ôTö Word p. 28 Is Terrorism Ever Justified? p. 28 State Terror(ism) and State-Sponsored Terrorism p. 30 State Sponsors of Terrorism p. 31 The Meaning of Terrorism in This Volume p. 32 Chapter 3 Terrorism in the Global Context p. 35 Different Types of Groups p. 36 The Roots of Modern Terrorism p. 37 The Post-World War II Wave p. 39 1968: The Advent of Modem-Day Terrorism p. 41 IRA and ETA: Groups That Transcend the Average Life Span of Terrorist Groups p. 42 The Decline of Left-Wing Terrorism p. 44 The Rise of Catastrophic Terrorism p. 45 Unrestrained Terrorism and Counterterrorism after the Cold War p. 46 The Old and New Terrorism in the Post-Cold War Era p. 47 Modernization, Globalization, and the Proliferation of Religious Violence p. 48 Technological Advances and Global Communication p. 52 Chapter 4 Terrorism in the American Context p. 55 Right-Wing Terrorism p. 55 The Ku Klux Klan p. 56 Christian Identity and Neo-Nazi Groups p. 59 The Patriot and Militia Movement p. 62 The Surge of the Black Supremacist Movement p. 65 Left-Wing Terrorism p. 65 The First Anarchists in the United States p. 65 The Weather Underground p. 67 The Black Panther Party p. 68 The Symbionese Liberation Army p. 69 Single-Issue Terrorism p. 70 Antiabortion Violence p. 70 The Animal and Earth Liberation Fronts p. 71 The Jewish Defense League p. 73 Puerto Rican Nationalist Groups p. 73 Ideological Waves p. 74 Chapter 5 Religious Terrorism: Political Violence in the Name of God p. 79 Defending the Faith in ôCosmic Warsö p. 83 The Proliferation of Religious Violence p. 85 Alienation, Humiliation, and Fear p. 86 The Jihadi Movement and Political Violence p. 88 Muslims p. 89 Islamists p. 89 Salafis and Wahhabis p. 90 Jihadis p. 90 Jihadi Ideology p. 92 Homegrown Jihadis in the West-Including the United States p. 95 Chapter 6 The Making of Terrorists: Causes, Conditions, Influences p. 102 Terrorism as a Result of Rational Choice p. 105 Terrorism as a Result of Personal Traits p. 107 Terrorism as a Result of Social Interaction p. 108 Gender and Terrorism p. 109 For the Sake of Love p. 111 Demonstration of Gender Equality p. 111 Can Real Women Become Terrorists? p. 113 Tactical Advantages of Female Terrorists p. 113 Children as Terrorists p. 115 The Lack of a Universal Terrorist Profile p. 116 The Stages Leading to Terrorism p. 116 The Roots of Terrorism: No Simple Answers p. 119 Chapter 7 From State Sponsors to Involuntary Hosts p. 123 Former and Current State Sponsors p. 128 Iraq p. 128 Libya p. 129 Sudan p. 129 Syria p. 130 The Case of Saudi Arabia p. 131 When Governments Reconsider Their Support for Terrorism p. 132 Failed and Failing States and ôBrown Areasö p. 133 Involuntary Host Countries p. 134 Chapter 8 Common Thread: Goals, Targets, Tactics p. 136 Do Terrorists Achieve Their Goals? p. 137 The Selection of Targets p. 138 Terrorist Methods: From Primitive Bombs to WMD p. 140 Most Common Methods of Terrorist Attacks p. 141 Most Likely CBRN Weapons in the Hands of Terrorists p. 154 Chapter 9 Organizational Structures and the Financing of Terror p. 160 When Terrorist Groups Decline or End p. 167 Financing Terrorism p. 168 Narco-Terrorism or Narco-Funded Terrorism? p. 170 Part 2 Counterterrorism p. 173 Chapter 10 Terrorism and America's Post-9/11 National Security Strategy p. 175 President Bush's National Security Strategy p. 179 I Making the World Safer and Better p. 180 II Preemption Before Threats Become Imminent p. 180 III Unilateral Use of Force p. 181 President Obama's National Security Strategy p. 182 Chapter 11 The Utility of Hard and Soft Power in Counterterrorism p. 188 Military Hard Power p. 191 Military Retaliation/Reprisal p. 191 Military Preemption p. 193 Commando Raids p. 195 Assassinations p. 196 Hostage Rescue Missions p. 197 Nonmilitary Hard Power: Economic Sanctions p. 199 Drying Up Financial Resources p. 200 Soft Power and Counterterrorism p. 200 Deterrence p. 200 Diplomacy p. 201 Talking to Terrorist Groups p. 203 Public Diplomacy p. 205 Conciliation and Peace p. 207 Chapter 12 Balancing Security, Liberty, and Human Rights p. 211 The Rights of ôEnemy Combatantsö p. 219 Torture: Leaders and Followers p. 222 Obama on Torture and Rendition p. 229 Torture: The Public Debate p. 230 Chapter 13 Homeland Security: Preparedness and Prevention p. 235 Post-9/11 Reorganization of Homeland Security p. 238 General and Specific Homeland Security Strategies p. 243 It's the Intelligence, Stupid p. 244 Reorganization of the Intelligence Community p. 248 International Cooperation p. 251 Congress Resists Change p. 253 Part 3 The News Media and the Internet p. 257 Chapter 14 Terrorist Propaganda and the Media p. 259 Publicity: The Universal Terrorist Goal p. 262 An Alternative View: Contemporary Terrorists Do Not Need Publicity p. 263 Terrorism and the Triangle of Communication p. 264 Media-Related Goals p. 265 The Attention-Getting Goal p. 265 The Recognition Goal p. 266 The Respectability/Legitimacy Goal p. 269 Bedfellows in a Marriage of Convenience p. 270 Media and Terrorist Contagion p. 271 Defending the Media p. 272 Treason or Public Service? p. 273 Chapter 15 Terror and Hate in Cyberspace p. 276 Terrorists and the Newest Communication Technologies p. 279 Propaganda and Hero Worship p. 281 The Internet as a Tool to Plan and Carry Out Terrorist Operations p. 286 The Web and the Retrieval of Valuable Information p. 289 Online Recruitment p. 289 Fund-Raising via the Net p. 290 Chapter 16 Anti- and Counterterrorism in the News p. 293 The Media and Military Responses to Terrorism p. 296 The Bombing of Libya (1986) p. 296 Bombing of Iraq's Intelligence Headquarters (1993) p. 297 Missile Strikes in Afghanistan and Sudan (1998) p. 297 The Post-9/11 War Against Terrorism p. 298 Military Action Against Al Qaeda and the Taliban (2001) p. 300 The Invasion of Iraq (2003) p. 301 The Iraq War: Different News Coverage Abroad p. 304 Chapter 17 Conclusion: Living with Terrorist Threats p. 307 Appendix: Major Terrorist Incidents Since the Early 1970s p. 313 Bibliography p. 323 Index p. 331.
Book Synopsis When Does Terrorism Work? by : Diego Muro
Download or read book When Does Terrorism Work? written by Diego Muro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the question of when terrorism works. Determining if political violence is effective and, if at all possible, when it is effective, is vital for both intellectual and practical reasons. The volume contains chapters from scholars who have been at the forefront of the efficaciousness debate and argues that terrorism can be effective in delivering tactical returns but is largely ineffective in realizing strategic goals. The book considers the pros and cons of choosing coercive intimidation to serve political ends from both a theoretical perspective and case study approach. It also outlines some of the methodological problems inherent in the academic debate that has taken place thus far on the subject, and suggests ways forward for making future scholarship in this area more inclusive, systematic and dialogically fruitful than it has been to date.
Book Synopsis War and Escalation in South Asia by :
Download or read book War and Escalation in South Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research reported here was part of a study called War and Escalation in South Asia, which was sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Director of Plans (XOX); Commander Central Command Air Forces (CENTAF/CC); and Commander, Pacific Air Force (PACAF/CC); and conducted within the Strategy and Doctrine Program of RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF). This monograph focuses on the highlights that emerged from an examination of the potential for regional conflicts, tensions, and instability in South Asia to endanger U.S. goals and objectives in the region and more broadly, U.S. equities in the Middle East and greater Asia. Because India and Pakistan are both nuclear weapon states with a long history of tensions and sporadic violence between them, much of the monograph focuses on their relations and the potential for future trouble. This study deals with other sources of friction and conflict, although in a more limited scope. The research should be of interest to anyone concerned with regional stability issues. Other recent RAND research on South Asia includes the following: The Counterterror Coalitions: Cooperation with Pakistan and India, C. Christine Fair (MG-141-AF, 2004). This monograph examines U.S. strategic relations with India and Pakistan both historically and in the current context of the global war on terrorism. It concludes that the intractable dispute over the disposition of Kashmir remains a critical flashpoint between India and Pakistan and a continual security challenge and offers five policy options on how the United States might proceed.
Author :Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intel Publisher :Createspace Independent Pub ISBN 13 :9781477573853 Total Pages :30 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (738 download)
Book Synopsis Boko Haram: Emerging Threat to the U. S. Homeland by : Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intel
Download or read book Boko Haram: Emerging Threat to the U. S. Homeland written by Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intel and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 26, 2011, a suicide bomber drove a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) into the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, killing 23 people and injuring more than 80 others.1 Responsibility for the bombing, one of the deadliest in the United Nations' history, was claimed by Boko Haram, an Islamist religious sect turned insurgent group based in the predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria. While this attack occurred inside Nigerian borders, it was the first time Boko Haram had targeted an international, non-Nigerian entity.
Book Synopsis Terrorist Use of Cryptocurrencies by : Cynthia Dion-Schwarz
Download or read book Terrorist Use of Cryptocurrencies written by Cynthia Dion-Schwarz and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The success of counterterrorism finance strategies in reducing terrorist access to official currencies has raised concerns that terrorist organizations might increase their use of such digital cryptocurrencies as Bitcoin to support their activities. RAND researchers thus consider the needs of terrorist groups and the advantages and disadvantages of the cryptocurrency technologies available to them.
