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Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War Audio CD – Unabridged, April 11, 2016

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America's fight against radical Islam could soon be over, and a top secret plan from the Cold War is the key to our victory. Dr. Sebastian Gorka, counterinsurgency expert and Distinguished Chair of Military Theory at Marine Corps University, explains how America can win the war on terror quickly and decisively by delegitimizing the enemy in the eyes of its followersa strategy that won the Cold War and would end the era of Jihad forever.

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Mission Audio
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April 11, 2016
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6.5 x 0.75 x 5.5 inches
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1633899861
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978-1633899865
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mission Audio; Unabridged edition (April 11, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1633899861
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1633899865
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.79 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.75 x 5.5 inches

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Avaloswrld

Good book

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2024

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Great read. Everyone should read this.

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Ralph White

Sebastian Gorka’s Long Telegram

Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2016

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Dr. Gorka’s book is a cleverly argued case for winning the war against jihad. The author’s thesis is that we need to recognize that we are at war with jihad and that we should want to defeat it. Americans should stop accommodating jihad as an extension of our religious tolerance ethic. Jihadis really do intend to exterminate us.

The cleverest feature of Dr. Gorka’s argument is that we do not yet have the equivalent of George Kennan’s Long Telegram, which he reproduces in an eighteen page appendix. That message Dr. Gorka calls a case study in what the intelligence community refers to as an enemy threat doctrine analysis. Simply stated, what Defeating Jihad does is to update Kennan’s Long Telegram to define jihad as a threat doctrine, an imminent, existential one for America. It’s an inescapable, almost intuitive conclusion, made unnecessarily perplexing by the Obama Administration’s inability to grasp it.

Just as Paul Nitze’s NSC-68 constituted what intelligence analysts call a strategic response plan (responding to the conclusions Kennan reached), Dr. Gorka’s repurposed Long Telegram requires a comparable strategic response. This the author provides in a four and a half page Afterword (which could very well serve as the outline to a follow up book – or an updated NSC directive). It contains such prescriptions, again obvious to the politically literate reader, as designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, reimposing sanctions on Iran, recognizing the subversive objectives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and expanding human intelligence penetration into jihadist organizations. Above all the White House must recognize that jihadis are the enemy and that jihad is their threat doctrine. We are not in a war against terrorism or violent extremism; we are in a war against jihad. And there is no such thing as a lone wolf jihadi.

When this reviewer finished the last page of Defeating Jihad he reached for his iPhone and sent an email to President-elect Trump suggesting he designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.

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Arcane Thought

Know your enemy.

Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2017

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This was a short book that didn't go into to much depth on the subject. It was mainly a primer of the main players of the Jihadi ideology and a quick answer to what we do to stop it.

I don't know if I agree that radical Islam is akin to the Communist threat but it is a starting point. I believe that with Communism we were dealing with a country and a government that wanted power more than an idea. Where radical Islam is an idea that has spread to the four corners of the earth thanks to our not taking it seriously. We seem to want to fight each other more than the people cutting off heads and burning people alive. Which speaks volumes about the health of our country.

I enjoyed the mentions of George Kennan and Paul Nittze's work on defeating the Soviet Union. We always hear Reagan did it. It's nice to see the architects mentioned instead of just the general contractor.

I liked the brief run down of the radical jihadi's who have made up this ideology. Mawdudi, Sayyid Qutb, Abdullah Azzam, SK MAlik, Bin LAden, and Zawahiri. Most Americans don't know who these people are. But you should if you want to understand the ideology we are up against.

As usual Dr. Gorka being a recent immigrant to this country and wanting to be part of it and not separate understands freedom and our founding documents better than people who have been here 200 years. It is why immigration and assimilation is so important. People should love the freedom and opportunity this country's founding documents give them and want to defend them with their blood.

In the end it will be the ideas of freedom and liberty that will defeat this hate and not counter-insurgency and bombs. Yes the pointy end of the spear needs to be bloodied but the main focus should be spreading sunlight to the festering idea of radical Islam. But we have to get our own house in order if we are to be successful.

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Mr. Mole

Excellent Resource

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2016

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I got the audio version, since I commute. This book/audio is excellent if you are getting started trying to educate yourself about the subject. As for myself, I already had learned bits and pieces about the subject; however, if you want to learn more and/or convince others of the urgency of defeating jihad, then you want to corroborate/strengthen/back up your existing knowledge with multiple sources such as this one. For instance, I had already heard that our Subject Matter Experts-- before providing instruction to our military, CIA, etc.-- must first submit their lesson plans/materials to a faceless "review board" who can strike out anything "offensive" and even have that instructor cancelled. The self-censorship, which began in 2011, is one of many self-defeating problems we have created as a nation to tie our own hands behind our backs.
The authors begins the book with the account of Paul, someone close to the author, whose country of Hungary was overrun and occupied by Communists before the author was born. This introduction is stunning, and drives home the saying the freedom is priceless and fragile. The author comes across as very sincere, and toward the end he provides other resources the reader can turn to for more (often free) learning, such as the internet-based websites and reports, some of which he and his wife are editors/facilitators.

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Sea River

OH defeating Jehad .....

Reviewed in Canada on February 11, 2022

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how you gonna defeat Jihad , it's my first name man.......and i won't let you defeat me ever , and remember what goes around comes around. today is yours , but tomorrow for sure is mine.
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Industrias Parabellum

Great book

Reviewed in Mexico on January 30, 2021

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Tarama

Too long

Reviewed in France on September 5, 2018

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Content is interesting. However could be written in 10 pages. Hence boring book !

jvm

Concise, easy to read and informative

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2017

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I feel sorry for Sebastian Gorka because he's been subject to an onslaught of criticisms from the media and liberals alike because he works for the Trump administration (clear cut case of guilt by association). What most of them don't know is that he was an expert witness in the Boston marathon bomber case (during the Obama administration), has been studying this for an extremely long time and is educated the PhD level. If you're looking for an accessible book that provides a valuable overview of Islamic extremism this well worth a few hours of your time.

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Paola B.

defeating Jihad: the winnable war

Reviewed in Italy on February 5, 2017

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Conversation-like tone kept throughout the book, although sometimes the vocabulary is not of the most common.
Important subject treated in an easy way; suitable for anybody

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