Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Al Qaeda : an evolving threat, policy, and strategy
  • Three strategic objectives. Attacking terrorists and their organizations
  • Protection against and preparation for terrorist attacks
  • Preventing the continued growth of Islamist terrorism
  • Message resonance and U.S. credibility in the Muslim world : USG deeds, actions, and policies as communication
  • Changing deeds and enhancing message resonance. The limits of public diplomacy and strategic communication : or, the "lipstick on pigs" problem
  • Concluding thoughts : formidable challenges, formidable opportunities
  • Challenging deeds : countering Al-Qaeda's terrorist propaganda. The vital function of propaganda in AQ's anti-American terrorism
  • The terrorist quadrangle : the role and function of terrorist propaganda as communication
  • The critical function of counterpropaganda in countering insurgent terrorism
  • How counterpropaganda differs from propaganda or PSYOP
  • Elements of a comprehensive USG counterpropaganda offensive. Influence operations, contemporary war, and warfare
  • From M, to diplomatic, informational military, and economic (DIME), to DIMEFIL, to DICEFILM : on the eight instruments of national power
  • Countering AQ propaganda : the primacy of the war of deeds
  • Implications for strategy. Ways, means, and ends
  • Conclusion.