Al-Qaida after ten years of war : a global perspective of successes, failures, and prospects / edited by Norman L. Cigar and Stephanie E. Kramer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cigar, Norman L.

Kramer, Stephanie E.

Marine Corps University (U.S.). Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qaida (Organization)--Congresses.

Qaida (Organization).

Terrorism.

terrorism.

Medical Subjects:

Terrorism.

Genre:

Congresses.

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 207 pages) : color illustrations, color maps

Place of Publication:

Quantico, VA : Marine Corps University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Since the September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the United States has been at war with al-Qaida. Over the past 10 years, counterterrorism efforts have disrupted its main training facilities and eliminated much of the core leadership structure, including the mastermind Usama Bin Ladin. Despite this, al-Qaida has proved resilient. While the core leadership has been compromised, regional al-Qaida offshoots and affiliated Islamist terrorist groups have formed, developed, and become prominent in their own right. To aid in examining and explaining al-Qaida's trajectory, the Minerva Initiative at Marine Corps University hosted a conference in the spring of 2011, just days before Bin Ladin's demise. The panels at this conference addressed diverse issues such as al-Qaida's overarching strategy; the degree of control that central al-Qaida leadership maintains over regional franchises; and the strategies, tactics, successes, and failures in each theater of operation. The resulting papers contribute to the ongoing and ever-evolving net assessment of al-Qaida and its future prospects, and they help inform the crafting of a war termination phase with al-Qaida.

Contents:

Keynote address : the deep fight / Michael V. Hayden

Al-Qaida's war with the United Nations and the state system / Christopher C. Harmon

Al-Qaida's theater strategy : waging a world war / Norman Cigar

East Africa and the Horn / David H. Shinn

The state of al-Qaida in Southeast Asia ten years since 9/11 / Adam Dolnik

Al-Qaida and terrorism in the Arab East : rise, decline, and the effects of doctrine revisions and the Arab revolutions / Amr Abdalla and Arezou Hassanzadeh

Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb / Ricardo René Larémont

Al-Qaida and Central Asia : a slowly developing and multipurpose presence / Michael F. Scheuer

Power by proxy : al-Qaida in Pakistan / Haider Ali Hussein Mullick

Toward a differential analysis of al-Qaida and the jihadist terrorist threat to Western European nations / Fernando Reinares

Al-Qaida and the United States : a panel presentation / Peter Bergen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from title screen (viewed on May 9, 2012).

Other Format:

Print version: Al-Qaida after ten years of war

OCLC:

793351446