Thinking Like a Terrorist Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent

Name: Thinking Like a Terrorist Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent
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ISBN: 9781597970259

ISBN-10: 1597970255

ISBN-13: 9781597970259

Edition: 2006

Authors: Mike German

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As the fifth full year of America??'s global war on terrorism continues, statistics concerning terrorist attacks show a disturbing trend: from a twenty-one-year high in 2003, attacks tripled in 2004 and then doubled in 2005. And as the incidence of terrorist attacks increased, so has the number of terrorists. While the primary leaders of the Taliban, al Qaeda, and al Qaeda in Iraq remain at large, a 2006 Department of Defense study reportedly identified thirty new al Qaeda???affiliated terrorist groups that have been created since September 11, 2001. We may not have metrics that measure our success in the war on terrorism, but these realities certainly illuminate our failures.In "Thinking…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Potomac Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 252
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Mike German left the FBI after blowing the whistle on the agencyrsquo;s mishandling of a terrorism investigation. A former undercover agent and counterterrorism instructor at the FBI National Academy, he is currently a senior fellow at GlobalSecurity.org. He lives in the Middle Atlantic region.



Preface



Prologue: An Unusual Education in Terrorism



The Trouble With Terrorism



The Difficult Definition



Getting Beyond Good and Evil



Compounding Confusion



Mind-set and Methods



Understanding Political Violence



Grading the Government



Methods and Motives



Case Study #1: A Successful Terror Campaign



Ranking the Resistance



Terrorism Types



How to Win



Case Study #2: The Ku Klux Klan



A Winning Strategy Against Extremist Terrorists



Case Study #3: Lessons of the IRA



A Winning Strategy Against Legitimately Motivated Terrorists



Analysis of the Global War on Terrorism



Our Constitutional Shield Against Terrorism


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author