Terrorism, armed struggle

On October 23, 2009, Somali pirates kidnapped Paul and Rachel Chandler from their sailing boat, the Lynn Rival, in the Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean.

The Business of Martyrdom is the only comprehensive history of suicide bombing from its origins in Imperial Russia to the present day.

How exactly do you stabilize a country that has been at war for nearly thirty years?

In this damning expose, a veteran senate defense advisor argues that since Sept 11, 2001, the conduct of the U.

America has been at war for years, but until now, it's not been clear with whom.

Daniel Gerstein draws on twenty-nine years of experience in the security and defense sectors to address the threat of bioterrorism.

In offering a comprehensive explanation of how militant Islamists have hijacked the Islamic religion, Aboul-Enein provides a realistic description of the militant threat, which is far different and distinct from Islamist political discourse and the wider religion of Islam.

With all that has already been written about President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, one of the little known stories is the case of the only successful conspirator, John Harrison Surratt, the son of Mary Surratt, who was hanged for her part in the crime.

Blending academic objectivity with a clear agenda of devising a new strategic U.

A hastily conceived joint operation to recover the American container ship, Mayaguez, and her crew that had been seized by the Khmer Rouge off the Cambodian coast in 1975 was plagued by inaccurate intelligence and a micro-managed command structure that extended to the Oval Office.

On January 26, 1993, a young Palestinian man named Abdel Nasser Zaben was arrested and incarcerated in New York City for kidnapping and robbery.

On July 22, 2011, a bomb went off outside government buildings in Oslo, Norway, killing eight people and injuring more than two hundred.

Africa is a continent of growing strategic importance in the global war on terrorism.

Terrorism is often depicted as something new and totally alien, a phantom enemy that cannot be understood.

In Leigh Armistead's second edited volume on warfare in the Information Age, the authors explore the hype over possibilities versus actuality in their analysis of Information Operations (IO) today.

One failure of 9/11 that has not received the attention it deserves is the inadequacy of the U.

Political speeches and public rhetoric paint the phenomena of terrorism with a black-and-white brush, presenting it as a clear-cut battle between evildoers and heroes.

What would cause an otherwise intelligent, well-educated, and, by all accounts, privileged Californian to forgo an easy life in the United States to struggle for survival in a land of strife and mortal danger?

An overview of modern Western militaries' response to armed rebellion, from Indochina to Northern Ireland to Iraq.

How do pious Shia Muslim women nurture and sustain their religious lives?

This short book focuses on the Disappearances that occurred during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

This volume offers a broad overview of the conditions, motives, and practices of violence during the most prominent intra state conflicts in Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

As potential targets, such as military facilities, symbols of democracy, government buildings, and infrastructure are "e;hardened"e; against possible terrorist attack, terrorists will shift to softer targets: churches, schools, malls, mass entertainment centers, high-rise apartments, transportation centers, and energy facilities.

In rebuilding conflict-affected states, a major portion of foreign aid focuses on reforming public finance management systems and supporting annual budgets.

This book investigates the framing of the terrorist threat in France from 2015 to 2020 as an 'exceptional' challenge which requires a 'special' public security response.

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The eighth of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Government Facilities Protection and Homeland Security is a reference source that is designed to serve and advise project designers, engineers, security specialists, managers, building and grounds superintendents, and/or supervisors and responsible-managers-in-charge.

Agriculture represents one of America's critical infrastructures.

In the post-9/11 world, the possibility of energy infrastructure-terrorism-the use of weapons to cause devastating damage to the energy industrial sector and cause cascading effects-is very real.

After 9/11, research on the perceived threat of terrorism moved in several directions.

They are Americans, and they are mujahideen.

In this gripping, firsthand account, Daniel Green tells the story of U.

The War of All the People elucidates the ideological and political war against the United States, capitalism, and the widely accepted tenets of modernity.

Since its inception, al Qaeda has aspired to create a safe haven in Yemen,where it has operated against U.

Introduced in 1998 by the Department of Defense, the concept of information operations (IO) proposed to revolutionize the ways in which warfare, diplomacy, and business were conducted.

The relationship between drugs and today's wars has grown more noticeable since the end of the Cold War and will likely gather strength in this era of increased globalization.

Osama bin Laden's words carry a great deal of weight in the West.

The next president of the United States faces innumerable complex problems, from a possible prolonged recession to climate change.

That American forces should torture prisoners in their "e;war"e; on terror is disturbing, but more shocking still is that the highest officials of the Bush-Cheney administration planned, authorized, encouraged, and concealed these war crimes.

On October 23, 1983, nearly simultaneous suicide truck bombings killed 241 U.

As the bloodshed in Iraq intensified in 2005, Afghanistan quickly faded from the nation's front pages to become the "e;other war,"e; supposedly going well and largely ignored.

Public debate over surrogate forces and proxy warfare has been largely dormant since the end of the Cold War.

There have been numerous attempts to engage the United Nations in a meaningful campaign against state-supported and other terrorist activities.

As we approach the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we have a chance to see more clearly how they were a turning point in America's relationship with the world.

FBI operative Raymond W.

In 1924, the last caliphate-an Islamic state as envisioned by the Koran-was dismantled in Turkey.

Beginning with the Communist Saur Revolution of 1978 and continuing through Gen.

Despite the wake-up call of September 11, 2001, terrorism remains a dire threat to the security of all civilized nations, making it imperative for leaders to develop better national, regional, and global strategies to counter its many forms.