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America confronts terrorism : understanding the danger and how to think about it : a documentary record 🔍
John Prados; Madeline Kripke; Madeline Kripke Collection of the History of Lexicography (Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington) Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, Chicago, Illinois, 2002
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Publisher's description: Here is an urgent book about the overwhelming challenge that faces the United States today in its twilight struggle with terrorist groups throughout the world. John Prados, one of our foremost authorities in national and international security affairs, has collected the most informative and provocative documents and writings about the terrorist threat. Drawing on materials from congressional investigations, the reports of the State and Defense departments, executive orders dealing with intelligence activities, other government documents, and articles by accomplished analysts, Mr. Prados lays out the essential characteristics of terrorist groups throughout the world. He shows how their expertise has evolved along with our perception of their activities. In articles from a wide range of sources, he presents the thinking of experts in the field on strategy, tactics, technology, and the development of effective American policies of counter-terrorism. In his Introduction, Mr. Prados offers an historical perspective as well as a compelling forecast of what the nation is likely to face in the years immediately ahead. In a new kind of war where old approaches are not likely to be effective, America Confronts Terrorism offers an intelligent perspective on our situation. It will be an indispensable resource for general readers.
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edited with an introduction by John Prados
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United States, United States of America
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March 25, 2002
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US, 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 434-436)
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<p>Here is an urgent book about the overwhelming challenge that faces the United States today in its twilight struggle with terrorist groups throughout the world. John Prados, one of our foremost authorities in national and international security affairs, has collected the most informative and provocative documents and writings about the terrorist threat. Drawing on materials from congressional investigations, the reports of the State and Defense departments, executive orders dealing with intelligence activities, other government documents, and articles by accomplished analysts, Mr. Prados lays out the essential characteristics of terrorist groups throughout the world. He shows how their expertise has evolved along with our perception of their activities. In articles from a wide range of sources, he presents the thinking of experts in the field on strategy, tactics, technology, and the development of effective American policies of counter-terrorism. In his Introduction, Mr. Prados offers an historical perspective as well as a compelling forecast of what the nation is likely to face in the years immediately ahead. In a new kind of war where old approaches are not likely to be effective, America Confronts Terrorism offers an intelligent perspective on our situation. It will be an indispensable resource for general readers.</p>
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Offers documents from various sources that describe the growing awareness of the threat of terrorism, terrorist views and methods, attacks on American interests abroad in the 1990s, and the response of the United States.
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Appreciations of the threat of terrorism
Countering the changing threat
Patterns of global terrorism
Osama Bin Ladin
Terrorist groups and methods
The record of the 1990s
United States responses
date open sourced
2023-06-28
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