Norman Cigar

Al-qaida After Ten Years of War: a Global Perspective of Successes, Failures, and Prospects: a Global Perspective of Successes, Failures, and Prospect Norman Cigar

Marc Notes: Shipping list no.: 2012-0233-P.; The papers that follow are the proceedings of the Marine Cors. University conference Al-Qaida after Ten Years of War: A Global Perspective of Successes, Failures, and prospects--P. v.; Includes bibliographical references.; 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.. Review Quotes: Review from Goodreads: Amy rated it with 4 stars and had this to say: "Al-Qaida After Ten Years of War was both a comforting collection of papers and a horrifying collection of papers about the state of Al-Qaida ten years after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. What I took away from this collection is that Al-Qaida has been disrupted in many ways, but unfortunately, it's like a hydra; if you cut off one of its heads, it regenerates two more. According to these papers, Al-Qaida has become an exporter of terrorism; its tactics, organization, and ideals have been exported to many other terrorist groups around the world, some affiliated with Al-Qaida Central, and some totally independent. Because of this adoption of Al-Qaida style terrorism, some of these terrorist organizations are positioned to be a real threat to outsiders, and a real boon to the survival of Al-Qaida Central. I was particularly alarmed by the paper about Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, the one about Al-Qaida in Central Asia, and the one about Al-Qaida in Pakistan. Turns out, Al-Qaida the Islamic Maghreb, composed not only of Al-Qaida, but also of affiliated and non-affiliated terrorist organizations is a source of money and recruitment for Al-Qaida Central. Al-Qaida in Central Asia is a real threat because there's precious little that can be done about them without flaming the fires further (kind of tough to go in and launch an attack with both China and Russia sitting right there), and oh, because they have the greatest liklihood of getting their hands on the loose WMD's kicking around after the fall of the Soviet Union. Al-Qaida in Pakistan is a threat because, as we are aware, Pakistan is Al-Qaida's base of operations, and yet, Pakistan is (ostensibly) a U. S. ally. After reading these papers I've come to think that we in the United States are greatly under-informed about the state of terrorism in the world (ironic, since we're bombared with information on a daTable of Contents: Preface -- 1. Keynote Address: The Deep Fight / General Michael V. Hayden -- 2. Al-Qaida's War with the United Nations and the State System / Christopher C. Harmon -- 3. Al-Qaida's Theater Strategy: Waging a World War / Norman Cigar -- 4. East Africa and the Horn / David H. Shinn -- 5. The State of Al-Qaida in Southeast Asia Ten Years since 9/11 / Adam Dolnik -- 6. Al-Qaida and Terrorism in the Arab East: Rise, Decline, and the Effects of Doctrine Revisions and the Arab Revolutions / Amr Abdalla, Arezou Hassanzadeh -- 7. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb / Ricardo Rene Laremont -- 8. Al-Qaida and Central Asia: A Slowly Developing and Multipurpose Presence / Michael F. Scheuer -- 9. Power by Proxy: Al-Qaida in Pakistan / Haider Ali Hussein Mullick -- 10. Toward a Differential Analysis of Al-Qaida and the Jihadist Terrorist Threat to Western European Nations / Fernando Reinares -- 11. Al-Qaida and the United States: A Panel Presentation / Peter Bergen -- Contributors. Publisher Marketing: One key factor that emerged from the various presentations was the sheer variety of issues, leaderships, local security environments, and prospects for the local gorups that are affiliated with Al-Qaida in some way. Other key judgments are also revealed including that Al-Qaida continues to harbor implacable hostility toward the international system, the United States, Israel, and many local governments. Each presentation by the various contributors are represented as separate essays within this text. Regional and territorial maps are interspersed throughout the book to showcase key areas to the group. Some may find interest in the metrics set by Al-Qaida as well as the Goods and Services Exchanged Between Al-Qaida and its partners that are showcased through charts and tables. Contributor Bio:  Cigar, Norman Norman Cigar is the author of "Genocide in Bosnia: The Policy of "Ethnic Cleansing"" and Professor of National Strategy at the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College. He has also served as a consultant to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague.