Routledge handbook of U.S. counterterrorism and irregular warfare operations /
This handbook comprises essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the topic of US counterterrorism and irregular warfare campaigns and operations around the globe. Terrorist groups have evolved substantially since 9/11, with the Islamic State often described as a pseudo-state, a terrorist grou...
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Table of Contents:
- The evolution of Islamist terrorism in the 20th century / James J.F. Forest
- The ideology behind al-Qaida and the Islamic State / Daniel Rudder and Christopher Heffelfinger
- The evolution of al-Qaida : 1988 to present day / Seth G. Jones
- The history of the Islamic State : from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi / Brian Fishman
- Contemporary conflict and political violence in the Levant / Benedetta Berti
- Jihadi militancy and Houthi insurgency in Yemen / Elisabeth Kendall
- The roots of terrorism in North and West Africa : AQIM and Boko Haram / Alice Hunt Friend
- Al-Shabaab and the Horn of Africa / Ken Menkhaus
- The history of terrorism in Southeast Asia / Peter Chalk
- The Taliban and the modern history of Afghanistan / Rob Johnson
- The modern history of Iran and the birth of the Shia proxy model / Alex Vatanka
- Terrorism, insurgency, and criminal insurgency in Latin America / Roman D. Ortiz
- El Salvador : Operations and Planning Assistance Training Teams and a minimalist approach to counterinsurgency / Cecil E. Bailey
- Plan Colombia and the U.S. Army's 7th Special Forces Group / Kevin M. Higgins
- The story of the U.S. role in the killing of Pablo Escobar / Mark Bowden
- The Iran-Contra Affair and the Afghan Task Force : lessons in covert action / Jack Devine and Amanda Mattingly
- The horse soldiers : lessons from expeditionary unconventional warfare / Mark E. Mitchell
- Special Operations Forces and Afghan Local Police programs / Donald C. Bolduc and Chris Hensley
- U.S. civilian architecture for stabilization and counterinsurgency in Northern Afghanistan (2012-2013) / Keith Mines
- Dismantling al-Qaida in Iraq / Liam Collins
- Operation Enduring Freedom Philippines : lessons in special warfare / David S. Maxwell
- Operation Serval : a swift intervention with a small footprint in Mali / Michael A. Sheehan and Pascale C. Siegel
- U.S. counterterrorism policy in Yemen from 2010-2020 / Luke Hartig
- Defeating the Islamic State : Special Operations Forces in Syria / Anthony Messenger, Nick Lewis-Walls, Mike Parker, Bert Pedrigi, and David P. Kearns
- The Joint Terrorism Task Force : investigating to disrupt and prosecute terrorists / Ali Soufan
- Creating the NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau / Michael A. Sheehan
- The inside story of how the NYPD's Intelligence Division adapted in the wake of 9/11 / David Cohen
- Lessons learned from four high-casualty terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11 / Paul Cruickshank
- Social media recruitment of Americans : a case study from the Islamic State / Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens and Seamus Hughes
- Countering extremist organizations in the information domain / Joseph Mroszczyk and Max Abrahms
- Theater Special Operations Command : the operational employment of U.S. Special Operations Forces / Charles T. Cleveland and Liam Collins
- Theater command in Afghanistan : taking charge of "The Other War" in 2003-2005 / David W. Barno
- America's drone wars outside of conventional war zones / Peter Bergen and A.G. Sims
- The United Kingdom's approach to counterterrorism / Robin Simcox and Hannah Stuart.