Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century: International Perspectives [3 Volumes] (Praeger Security International)

Biographical Note:

JAMES J. F. FOREST is Director of Terrorism Studies at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he teaches courses on counterterrorism and information warfare and directs research initiatives for the Combating Terrorism Center (http: //ctc.usma.edu).

Volume I

: Editors Note

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Strategic and Tactical Considerations: An Introduction

PART I: STRATEGIC AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

2. U.S. Grand Strategy for Countering Islamist Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century

3. Thinking Strategically: Can Democracy Defeat Terrorism?

4. Twenty-First Century Insurgencies: Understanding the Use of Terrorism as a Strategy

5. Developing and Implementing Counterterrorism Policy in a Liberal Democracy

6. Morality, Ethics and Law in the Global War on Terrorism (the Long War)

7. The Critical Role of Interagency Cooperation in Combating Suicide Bombings

8. The U.S. Government's Counterterrorism Research and Development Programs

PART II: HARD POWER

9. National Objectives in the Hands of Junior Leaders

10. Engaging Military Contractors in Counterterrorism Operations

11. Manhunting: A Process to Find Persons of National Interest

12. Guerilla Warfare and Law Enforcement: Combating the 21st Century Terrorist Cell Within the United States

13. Combating Terror in U.S. Communities: The SWAT Mission

PART III: SOFT POWER

14. Denying Terrorists Sanctuary through Civil Military Operations

15. Battlefronts in the War of Ideas

16. The Centrality of Ideology in Counter-Terrorism Strategies in the Middle East

17. Public Diplomacy as Strategic Communication

18. Cyber Mobilization: The Neglected Aspect of Information Operations and Counterinsurgency Doctrine

19. The Key Role of Psychological Operations in Countering Terrorism

PART IV: INTELLIGENCE AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE

20. The Contemporary Challenges of Counterterrorism Intelligence

21. Multinational Intelligence Cooperation

22. Intelligence Coordination and Counterterrorism: A European Perspective

23. Coping with Terrorism: Lessons Learned from the Israeli Secret Services

24. Facilitating Interagency Communication and Open Source Intelligence for Counterterrorism

25. Al Qaidas Surveillance Offensive Against America, 1997-2001: Implications for U.S. Homeland Countersurveillance

26. Forecasting Terrorist Groups Warfare: Conventional to CBRN

Appendix A: National Security Strategy of the United States

Appendix B: National Strategy for Combating Terrorism

Notes

Select Bibliography and Resources for Further Reading

Index

About the Editor and Contributors

Volume II

: Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Combating the Sources and Facilitators of Terrorism: An Introduction

PART I: GOVERNMENTS AND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM

2. Combating State Sponsors of Terrorism

3. The Democratic Deficit: The Need for Liberal Democratization

4. The Role of Democratization in Reducing the Appeal of Extremist Groups in North Africa and the Middle East

5. Authoritarian and Corrupt Governments

6. The Failed State

7. Border Controls and State Insecurity

PART II: CRIMINAL AND ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS

8. Combating the International Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons

9. Terrorism Finance: Global Responses to the Terrorism Money Trail

10. Organized Criminal Networks and Terrorism

11. The Global Drug Trade and its Nexus to Terrorism

12. Afghanistans Transformation to a Narco-Terrorist State: An Economic Perspective

13. The Shadow Economy and Terrorist Infrastructure

14. International Energy Dependence: Facilitator and Vulnerability

15. Red Sky in the Morning: The Nexus between International Maritime Piracy and Transnational Terrorism

16. Understanding and Countering the Motives and Methods of Warlords

PART III: SOCIETY, TECHNOLOGY AND STRATEGIC INFLUENCE

17. Responding to Psychological, Social, Economic and Political Roots of Terrorism

18. Suicide, Homicide or Martyrdom: Whats in a Name?

19. Understanding and Combating Education for Martyrdom

20. Terrorism and New Media: The Cyber-Battlespace

21. Cry Terror and Let Slip the Media Dogs

22. Terror TV? An Exploration Of Hizbollahs Al-Manar Television

23. Socio-Cultural, Economic and Demographic Aspects of Counterterrorism

PART IV: U.S. RESPONSES TO THE GLOBAL SECURITY ENVIRONMENT

24. Terrorism, Insurgency and Afghanistan

25. Fighting al Qaida: Understanding the Organizational, Ideological, and Financial Aspects of a Global Network of Terror

26. Iraq in the 21st Century

27. The Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Initiative: Americas New Commitment to Africa

28. Values, Emotions and the Global War on Terror

Appendix: The United Nations Global Counterterrorism Strategy

Notes

Select Bibliography and Resources for Further Reading

Index

About the Editor and Contributors

Volume III

: Preface

Acknowledgments

1. An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Counterterrorism

2. Educating the Next Generation of Counterterrorism Professionals

PART I: CASE STUDIES OF TERRORIST ATTACKS AND COUNTERTERRORISM

OPERATIONS

3. Beginning of a War: The United States and the Hijacking of TWA Flight 847

4. The Achille Lauro Hijacking

5. The February 1993 Attack on the World Trade Center

6. Insurgent Seizure of an Urban Area: Grozny, 1996

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The attacks of September 11, 2001, inaugurated a new global era of counterterrorism policy and activity, led by the United States. Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century analyzes the most significant dimensions of combating terrorism, including considerations of strategic and tactical issues (hard power, soft power, and counterintelligence); the need to thwart sources and facilitators (weak governments, ill-conceived foreign policy, and trafficking in drugs, guns, and humans); and the incorporation of lessons learned thus far from combating terrorism around the globe.

Since the dawn of the new millennium, combating terrorism has become a primary focus of security professionals throughout the world. The attacks of September 11, 2001, inaugurated a new global era of counterterrorism policy and activity, led by the United States, while many countries--from Algeria and Spain to Sri Lanka and Indonesia--have redoubled their efforts to combat their own indigenous terrorism threats. In the Unites States, the counterterrorism goals identified in the National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (2006) can only be achieved through significant multinational cooperation. These goals are to advance effective democracies as the long-term antidote to the ideologies of terrorism; to prevent attacks by terrorist networks; to deny terrorists the support and sanctuary of rogue states; to deny terrorists control of any nation they would use as a base and launching pad for terror; and to lay the foundations and build the institutions and structures we need to carry the fight forward against terror and help ensure our ultimate success.

At this point in the development of the global counterterrorism efforts, it is particularly important to pause for reflection on a number of critical questions.

• What do we know about effectively countering terrorism?
• What are the characteristics of successful or unsuccessful counterterrorism campaigns?
• What do we need to learn in order to do this better?

Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century addresses these and related questions, contributing to national security policy as well as to our understanding of the terrorist threat and how it can be defeated. Volume 1: Strategic and Tactical Considerations examines issues of hard power, soft power, and intelligence/counterintelligence. Volume 2: Sources and Facilitators covers state failure, border controls, democracy promotion, networks and trade and trafficking, and societal issues. Volume 3: Lessons Learned from Combating Terrorism and Insurgency includes case studies of counterterrorism operations (e.g., the hijacking of the Achille Lauro, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and the capture of key terrorist suspects like Ramzi Youssef and Khalid Sheikh Mohamad); and case studies of long-term efforts to combat terrorism (e.g., the Basques in Spain, the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, Israel's struggle against Palestinian terror organizations, Peru and Sendero Luminoso, and Japan and Aum Shinrikyo).

"This three-volume collection edited by Forest gathers together dozens of experts, military and academic, on the topic of global terrorism. Forest has written a preface and introduction to each volume. In effect, contributors' essays answer such questions from Forest as What do we know about effectively countering terrorism?, What are the characteristics of successful or unsuccessful counterterrorism campaigns?, and What do we need to learn in order to better handle this threat? Forest notes that terrorism has been around for hundreds of years and that the ability of terrorists to adapt to the changing international environment, use technology, and maintain lines of communication helps them remain viable. He recognizes that no single method will be successful in eradicating terrorism but advocates that nations themselves adapt by using not just greater technology but greater international communication and cooperation. The set is well organized, with chapters arranged thematically....Although each volume can in fact function as a standalone text, the set should be maintained as one complete work. Recommended for academic and large public libraries."

Library Journal

"Aiming to encourage the development of learning organizations among national security professionals by examining what we currently know about the strategic application of hard and soft power in countering the sources and facilitators of terrorism, Forest presents a three-volume set of some 60 thematic essays and case studies summarizing existing knowledge in the field of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, largely from the perspective of the industrialized democracies."

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The attacks of September 11, 2001, inaugurated a new global era of counterterrorism policy and activity, led by the United States. Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century analyzes the most significant dimensions of combating terrorism, including considerations of strategic and tactical issues (hard power, soft power, and counterintelligence); the need to thwart sources and facilitators (weak governments, ill-conceived foreign policy, and trafficking in drugs, guns, and humans); and the incorporation of lessons learned thus far from combating terrorism around the globe.

Since the dawn of the new millennium, combating terrorism has become a primary focus of security professionals throughout the world. The attacks of September 11, 2001, inaugurated a new global era of counterterrorism policy and activity, led by the United States, while many countries--from Algeria and Spain to Sri Lanka and Indonesia--have redoubled their efforts to combat their own indigenous terrorism threats. In the Unites States, the counterterrorism goals identified in the National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (2006) can only be achieved through significant multinational cooperation. These goals are to advance effective democracies as the long-term antidote to the ideologies of terrorism; to prevent attacks by terrorist networks; to deny terrorists the support and sanctuary of rogue states; to deny terrorists control of any nation they would use as a base and launching pad for terror; and to lay the foundations and build the institutions and structures we need to carry the fight forward against terror and help ensure our ultimate success.

At this point in the development of the global counterterrorism efforts, it is particularly important to pause for reflection on a number of critical questions.

• What do we know about effectively countering terrorism?
• What are the characteristics of successful or unsuccessful counterterrorism campaigns?
• What do we need to learn in order to do this better?

Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century addresses these and related questions, contributing to national security policy as well as to our understanding of the terrorist threat and how it can be defeated. Volume 1: Strategic and Tactical Considerations examines issues of hard power, soft power, and intelligence/counterintelligence. Volume 2: Sources and Facilitators covers state failure, border controls, democracy promotion, networks and trade and trafficking, and societal issues. Volume 3: Lessons Learned from Combating Terrorism and Insurgency includes case studies of counterterrorism operations (e.g., the hijacking of the Achille Lauro, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and the capture of key terrorist suspects like Ramzi Youssef and Khalid Sheikh Mohamad); and case studies of long-term efforts to combat terrorism (e.g., the Basques in Spain, the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, Israel's struggle against Palestinian terror organizations, Peru and Sendero Luminoso, and Japan and Aum Shinrikyo).

Review Citations:

• Library Journal 09/01/2007 pg. 148 (EAN 9780275990343, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:Forest, James J F

JAMES J. F. FOREST is Director of Terrorism Studies at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he teaches courses on counterterrorism and information warfare and directs research initiatives for the Combating Terrorism Center (http: //ctc.usma.edu).