Citizen's Guide to Terrorism and Counterterrorism
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- ISBN 9780367486501
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This Citizen’s Guide addresses the public policy issues of terrorism and counterterrorism in the United States. Written for the thinking citizen and student alike, this succinct and up-to-date book takes a “grand strategy” approach toward terrorism and uses examples and issues drawn from present-day perpetrators and actors.
Christopher C. Harmon, a veteran academic of military theory who has also instructed U.S. and foreign military officers, organizes his book into three sections. He first introduces the problem of America’s continued vulnerability to terrorist attack. Part II examines the varied ways in which the U.S. is fighting terrorism, highlighting the labors of diverse experts, government offices, intelligence and military personnel, and foreign allies. The book outlines the various aspects of the U.S. strategy, including intelligence, diplomacy, public diplomacy, economic counterterrorism, and law and law-making. In Part III, Harmon sketches the prospects for further action, steering clear of simple partisanship and instead listing recommendations with pros and cons and also including factual stories of how individual citizens have made a difference in the national effort against terrorism.
New to the Second Edition
• Adds coverage of the Islamic State, explained in terms of its character, rise, and relative collapse under coalition pressures.
• Focuses on the growing right-wing terrorist threat, domestically as well as internationally.
• Covers additional schools of militancy including anarchism; variants of communism and especially Maoist insurgency; and the Iranian/Shia terrorist threat throughout the Middle East and Europe, among others.
• Analyzes the current published White House strategy for countering terrorism.
Christopher C. Harmon has been teaching, publishing, and advancing studies of terrorism and counterterrorism for three decades. This is his sixth book in the fi eld. Here he covers the moral, political, tactical, and strategic problems that citizens most want to know about. Dr. Harmon holds the Bren Chair of Great Power Competition, Marine Corps University, Virginia.
