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  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (July 28, 2011)
  • Publication Date: July 28, 2011
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  • Language: English
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5.0 out of 5 starsInformed and provocative
By C. A. Cameron on September 9, 2011
Format: Hardcover
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross knows and explains the background, history, religious basis and strategy of jihad, and spells out in painstaking detail how we have done just what AQ's strategy hoped for -- leaving ourselves open to economic defeat despite our undoubted military superiority and successful erosion of AQ Central personnel.

Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe author
By Diane Miller on November 29, 2012
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pulled together a lot of things I had been thinking in a very thoughtful way. He defined the problems with our country's counter-terrorism policies & actions; explained how they came about; and outlined a plan to change and improve for the future. Very worthwhile read for a defense/military/counter-terrorism dilettante like myself and a must-read for anyone in a real position of power & influence.
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5.0 out of 5 starsSharply analytical and accessible, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross shows the danger of not knowing our enemy
By Amazon Customer on January 12, 2012
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TEN YEARS HAVE passed since terrorists hijacked airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In that period, America has fought wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, carried out hundreds armed drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen (among other locations), and conducted covert operations around the world, all in the name of what President George W. Bush termed the "Global War on Terror." Terror plots and attempted attacks have been foiled, terrorist leaders have been killed or captured in massive numbers - including the world's most wanted terrorist himself, Osama bin Laden. All of this has combined, in the words of President Barack Obama, to "put al Qaeda on the path to defeat."

Given all this, is it possible that America is actually losing the war on terror? In Bin Laden's Legacy: Why We're Still Losing the War on Terror, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, director of the Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, argues not only that we are losing, but that we as a nation still fail to understand what kind of a war we are fighting, and what our enemies' actual goals are. This is a powerful indictment, and Gartenstein-Ross painstakingly lays it out in a book that is both sharply analytical and accessible to any audience.

A KEY PROBLEM with America's attempt to wage a War on Terror while safeguarding itself from future attack, Gartenstein-Ross writes, is that our ignorance of the enemy we are facing has allowed us to pursue both goals in a profligate fashion that plays right into the hands of an enemy that sees America's economy as the long-term target. To understand the reasoning behind this, we must look to the Soviet Union. Though myriad factors contributed to the dissolution of the U.S.S.R.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsShould Be Condensed to A Magazine Article!
By Loyd Eskildson HALL OF FAME on September 23, 2011
Format: Hardcover
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross's 'Bin Laden's Legacy' makes a very important point - that al-Qaeda, despite Osama bin Laden's death, remains a significant threat because we continue to allow it to sap our economic and military strength. This was one of bin Laden's original declared objectives (saw this as key to undermining our military strength), and has recently been repeated by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in its English-language 'Inspire' on-line magazine. The 11/2010 issue states that 'Operation Hemorrhage' (bombs hidden in printer cartridges sent to U.S. synagogues) cost only $4,200, but will cost the U.S. etc. billions in on-going security measures. (The plot was foiled by Saudi Arabian intelligence, not U.S. anti-terrorism efforts.) Similarly, neither Richard Reid's shoe-bomb nor the underwear bomber were stopped by U.S. security measures, cost very little to implement, and 'refuel' anti-terrorism expenditures.

Al-Qaeda believes its prior efforts against the Soviets in Afghanistan helped bankrupt the USSR; author Gartenstein-Ross, however, contends that the Soviets were already in deep economic trouble without the Afghanistan 'misadventure' - it had been having difficulty feeding its population for years already, and the final blow was the fall in the price of oil, courtesy of Saudi Arabia's ramping up production in the late 1980s.

The U.S., however, has played into al-Qaeda's strategy by over-reacting - expanding the 'War on Terror' into Iraq and other locations, inefficiently managing TSA screening efforts, and politicizing anti-terrorism to the point where efficiency/effectiveness discussions are impossible. Thus, massive waste, taken advantage by countless private companies and local governments to obtain funding for marginal anti-terrorism programs - eg.Read more ›
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