Friday, August 25, 2006

[USA] Unconquerable Nation : Knowing Our Enemy, Strengthening Ourselves / Rand, August 2006

PDF - http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2006/RAND_MG454.pdf
Brian Michael Jenkins
"Presents a clear-sighted and sobering analysis of where the USA is today in the struggle against terrorism. Jenkins, an internationally renowned authority on terrorism, distills the jihadists’ operational code and suggests how they might assess their situation very differently from how we might do so. He distills the jihadists’ operational code and outlines a ferociously pragmatic but principled approach that goes beyond attacking terrorist networks and operational capabilities to defeating their entire missionary enterprise by deterring recruitment and encouraging defections."