Decoding Al-Qaeda's Strategy

Decoding Al-Qaeda's Strategy
Title Decoding Al-Qaeda's Strategy PDF eBook
Author Michael Ryan
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 370
Release 2013-07-09
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0231163843

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The first book to draw a blueprint for defeating al-Qaeda on ideological rather than military grounds.

Decoding Al-Qaeda's Strategy

Decoding Al-Qaeda's Strategy
Title Decoding Al-Qaeda's Strategy PDF eBook
Author Michael W. S. Ryan
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 369
Release 2013-08-13
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0231533276

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By consulting the work of well-known and obscure al-Qaeda theoreticians, Michael W. S. Ryan finds jihadist terrorism strategy has more in common with the principles of Maoist guerrilla warfare than mainstream Islam. Encouraging strategists and researchers to devote greater attention to jihadi ideas rather than jihadist military operations, Ryan builds an effective framework for analyzing al-Qaeda's plans against America and constructs a compelling counternarrative to the West's supposed "war on Islam." Ryan examines the Salafist roots of al-Qaeda ideology and the contributions of its most famous founders, Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a political-military context. He also reads the Arabic-language works of lesser known theoreticians who have played an instrumental role in framing al-Qaeda's so-called war of the oppressed. These authors readily cite the guerrilla strategies of Mao, Che Guevara, and the mastermind of the Vietnam War, General Giap. They also incorporate the arguments of American theorists writing on "fourth-generation warfare." Through these texts, readers experience events as insiders see them, and by concentrating on the activities and pronouncements of al-Qaeda's thought leaders, especially in Yemen, they discern the direct link between al-Qaeda's tactics and trends in anti-U.S. terrorism. Ryan shows al-Qaeda's political-military strategy to be a revolutionary and largely secular departure from the classic Muslim conception of jihad, adding invaluable dimensions to the operational, psychological, and informational strategies already deployed by America's military in the region.

Decoding Al-Qaeda's Strategy

Decoding Al-Qaeda's Strategy
Title Decoding Al-Qaeda's Strategy PDF eBook
Author Michael W. S. Ryan
Publisher Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
Pages 368
Release 2016-01-12
Genre Jihad
ISBN 9780231163859

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The first book to draw a blueprint for defeating al-Qaeda on ideological rather than military grounds.

Why Civil Resistance Works

Why Civil Resistance Works
Title Why Civil Resistance Works PDF eBook
Author Erica Chenoweth
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 451
Release 2011-08-09
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0231527489

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For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results, even in Iran, Burma, the Philippines, and the Palestinian Territories. Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail. They find that nonviolent resistance presents fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and that higher levels of participation contribute to enhanced resilience, greater opportunities for tactical innovation and civic disruption (and therefore less incentive for a regime to maintain its status quo), and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters, including members of the military establishment. Chenoweth and Stephan conclude that successful nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and internally peaceful democracies, which are less likely to regress into civil war. Presenting a rich, evidentiary argument, they originally and systematically compare violent and nonviolent outcomes in different historical periods and geographical contexts, debunking the myth that violence occurs because of structural and environmental factors and that it is necessary to achieve certain political goals. Instead, the authors discover, violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds.

Delegitimizing Al-Qaeda

Delegitimizing Al-Qaeda
Title Delegitimizing Al-Qaeda PDF eBook
Author Paul Kamolnick
Publisher
Pages 84
Release 2012
Genre Jihad
ISBN

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Disrupting, dismantling, and ultimately defeating al-Qaeda based and inspired terrorism is a declared policy of the U.S. Government. Three key strategic objectives have been identified for accomplishing this: attacking al-Qaeda's terror network, undermining radicalization and recruitment, and hardening homeland defense. The present monograph proposes a distinct "jihad-realist" approach for undermining radicalization and recruitment to al-Qaeda. First, a brief discussion of six means for ending terrorist organizations is provided. Second, the premises of a jihad-realist approach are described. Third, a jihad-realist Shari'a case against al-Qaeda's terrorism is presented. In conclusion, key assertions are summarized, and several specific policy recommendations offered for national security personnel charged with formulating and executing counterterrorist messaging strategy.

おしゃれさんのらくらくパイ

おしゃれさんのらくらくパイ
Title おしゃれさんのらくらくパイ PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 50
Release 1982
Genre
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Al Qaeda

Al Qaeda
Title Al Qaeda PDF eBook
Author Christopher M. Blanchard
Publisher DIANE Publishing
Pages 21
Release 2010-06
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1437927181

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Contents: (1) Introduction: Al Qaeda: Statements 1994-2001: Founding Principles; ¿Declaration of Jihad¿; ¿Clash of Civilizations¿; (2) Al Qaeda Post-9/11; ¿The Goals of the New York Strike¿; Al Qaeda Statements in 2004-2007; Outreach and 'Truce¿ Proposals; Iraq and Al Qaeda¿s Ideology; Strategic Perspectives; Tactical Differences?; Iraq and Al Qaeda¿s Regional Ambitions; The ¿Islamic State of Iraq¿ and Discord; Political Goals and Perspectives on Reform; The Three Foundations; Al Qaeda on Democracy and Reform; Strategic Framework; Targeting Israel; The Importance of Oil; (3) Implications and Conclusion: Al Qaeda¿s Audiences; Pragmatic Messianism; Al Qaeda and the Jihadist International.