Over the past 25 years, the United States government has developed, through trial and error, both an understanding of terrorism and the means to deal with it. Using information collected in interviews with key decisionmakers from the Nixon to the Clinton administrations, David Tucker draws both strategic and tactical lessons from the United States' encounters with various terrorist groups. These lessons can be usefully applied to future counterterrorism efforts, as well as to other aspects of national security policy in a post-Cold War world where major conflicts will continue to be played out in numerous small struggles. This study will be must-reading for scholars and professionals in international relations, foreign policy, and military/political affairs.
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DAVID TUCKER is Acting Director of Policy Planning in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict).
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At mid-century, because of its preeminence and principles, the United States and its diplomats, military personnel, and businessmen around the world became targets for political violence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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At mid-century, because of its preeminence and principles, the United States and its diplomats, military personnel, and businessmen around the world became targets for political violence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, State Department, Soviet Union, Middle East, Cold War, Defense Department, Secretary of State, Joint Staff, Justice Department, World War, President Clinton, Latin America, North Korea, President Bush, Gulf War, Black September, Executive Committee, East Germans, Great Britain, National Security Advisor, World Trade Center, President Reagan, Thomas Jefferson, United Nations, Declaration of Independence New!
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- The Age of Terrorism by Walter Laqueur on 6 pages
- Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America's War Against Terrorism (A Touchstone book) by David C. Martin on 6 pages
- Economic Sanctions Reconsidered: History and Current Policy by Gary Clyde Hufbauer in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Middle East (Sociology of Development Societies) by Talal Asad on page 40, page 80, and page 187
- The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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