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God, Guns, and Sedition is the definitive account of the rise of far-right terrorism in the United States¿and how to counter it. Leading experts Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware trace the historical trajectory and assess the present-day dangers of this violent extremist movement.

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Das Standardwerk - vollständig überarbeitet, aktualisiert und umfangreich ergänzt! Die Bedrohung durch den Terrorismus hat eine nie gekannte Dimension erreicht. Religiöse und ideologische Konflikte werden vermehrt durch Terroranschläge ausgetragen, in besonderem Maße durch Selbstmordattentate. Terrorismus ist Krieg, ohne den Krieg zu erklären, und gleichzeitig eine sehr wirksame Möglichkeit auch militärisch unterlegener Gruppierungen, politi...

Alternatives to closure of Pennsylvania Avenue for protecting the White House.

Bruce Hoffman's Inside Terrorism has remained the seminal work for understanding the historical evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mind-set. In this revised third edition of his classic text, Hoffman analyzes the latest developments in global terrorism, offering insight into new adversaries, motivations, strategies, and tactics. He focuses on the rise of ISIS and the resilience of al-Qaeda, terrorist exploitation of the Internet and embr...

Bruce Hoffman's Inside Terrorism has remained the seminal work for understanding the evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mind-set. In this revised third edition, Hoffman analyzes the latest developments, offering insight into new adversaries, motivations, strategies, and tactics. He focuses on the rise of ISIS and the resilience of al-Qaeda.

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award Winner of the Washington Institute Book Prize One of the Best Books of the Year St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Kirkus Reviews In this groundbreaking work, Bruce Hoffman-America's leading expert on terrorism-brilliantly re-creates the crucial thirty-year period that led to the birth of Israel. Drawing on previously untapped archival resources in London, Washington, D.C., and Jerusalem, Anonymous Soldiers sh...

Organized groups of victims' families and friends have emerged since September 11, 2001, to become a powerful voice in U.S. counterterrorist policy and legislation. These groups were remarkably successful in getting the 9/11 Commission established and in getting the commission's most important recommendations enacted. This report documents these groups and compares them to groups formed in response to other terrorist attacks.

This analysis descrobes in counterinsurgency terms where the United States has gone wrong in Iraq, what unique challenges the conflictpresents to coalition military forces, and what light both shed on future counterinsurgency planning, operations, and requirements.

Examining major terrorist acts and campaigns undertaken in the decade following September 11, 2001, internationally recognized scholars study the involvement of global terrorist leaders and organizations in these incidents and the planning, organization, execution, recruitment, and training that went into them. Their work captures the changing character of al-Qaeda and its affiliates since the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the sophisti...

Examining major terrorist acts and campaigns undertaken in the decade following September 11, 2001, internationally recognized scholars study the involvement of global terrorist leaders and organizations in these incidents and the planning, organization, execution, recruitment, and training that went into them. Their work captures the changing character of al-Qaeda and its affiliates since the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the sophisti...

The papers in this special issue of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism accompanied the conference in Oklahoma in April 2000, whose purpose was to assess developments in terrorism over the preceeding two decades, map its likely future direction and propose policy recommendations and other remedial steps to counter the menace.

Certain Diaspora communities, frustrated by a perceived war against the Muslim world, have turned against their adopted homelands, targeting the government and its people by supporting terrorist attacks against Western countries through recruitment, fundraising, and training. The problem is exacerbated by the open borders of globalization. Emerging threats must be identified without alienating Diaspora communities and thereby playing into terr...