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Bin Laden's Legacy de Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Bin Laden's Legacy

Autor Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
en Limba Engleză Hardback – aug 2011

Descoperim în Bin Laden's Legacy o analiză lucidă a modului în care răspunsurile strategice ale Statelor Unite după evenimentele din 11 septembrie au servit, paradoxal, obiectivelor pe termen lung ale Al Qaeda. Ceea ce aduce nou această lucrare este demonstrația detaliată a modului în care gruparea teroristă a speculat punctele slabe ale sistemului birocratic american, transformând lupta antiteroristă într-un război de uzură economică. Notăm cu interes conceptul de „strategie a celor o mie de tăieturi”, prin care autorul explică tranziția către atacuri mai mici, dar constante, menite să submineze moralul public și stabilitatea financiară a Occidentului. Cititorii familiarizați cu Trapped in the War on Terror de Ian S Lustick vor aprecia aici perspectiva aplicată asupra ineficienței structurale a agențiilor de securitate. În timp ce Lustick se concentrează pe mecanismele politice ale fricii, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross oferă o dimensiune strategică suplimentară, evaluând costurile economice și logistice ale unui aparat de securitate devenit prea rigid pentru a contracara un inamic agil. Această abordare continuă temele explorate de autor în The Afghanistan-Pakistan Theater, unde punea sub semnul întrebării eficiența operațiunilor pur militare, dar și cercetările sale din Homegrown Terrorists in the U.S. and the U.K. privind radicalizarea internă. Reținem că volumul nu se rezumă la critică, ci propune o recalibrare a priorităților naționale. Stilul este precis și argumentat, evitând senzaționalismul în favoarea unei analize bazate pe date despre alocarea resurselor și impactul politicilor de securitate asupra vieții civile. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege de ce superioritatea militară nu a garantat victoria într-un conflict definit de asimetrie economică și psihologică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781118094945
ISBN-10: 1118094948
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 164 x 240 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Turner Publishing Company
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este recomandată celor pasionați de geopolitică și strategii de securitate care doresc să înțeleagă dedesubturile economice ale terorismului modern. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care birocrația și deciziile politice pot sabota siguranța națională. Este un ghid esențial pentru a înțelege cum reziliența societății este la fel de importantă ca forța militară în fața unui inamic adaptabil.

Despre autor

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross este un renumit consultant în contraterorism, a cărui expertiză este solicitată frecvent de instituții de aplicare a legii și înalți oficiali federali americani. Autor prolific, acesta a publicat numeroase articole de specialitate în publicații de prestigiu precum The Wall Street Journal Europe și The Washington Times. Experiența sa vastă în studiul extremismului religios și al legislației internaționale îi permite să ofere analize complexe, ancorate în realitățile operative ale securității globale, făcându-l o voce de referință în literatura de specialitate dedicată politicii externe.

Descriere scurtă

Why al Qaeda is winning its war against the West—and America has been playing right into its hands In the decade since 9/11, the United States has grown weaker: It has been bogged down by costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It has spent billions of dollars on security to protect air travel and other transport, as well as the homeland more generally. Much of this money has been channeled into efforts that are inefficient by design and highly bureaucratic, a lack of coordination between and among the government and an array of contractors making it difficult to evaluate the return on the enormous investment that we have made in national security. Meanwhile, public morale has been sapped by measures ranging from color-coded terror alerts to full-body hand searches.
Now counterterrorism expert Daveed Gartenstein-Ross details the strategic missteps the U.S. has made in the fight against al Qaeda, a group that U.S. planners never really took the time to understand. For this reason, America's responses to the terrorist threat have often unwittingly helped al Qaeda achieve its goals. Gartenstein-Ross's book explains what the country must do now to stem the bleeding.
  • Explains in detail al Qaeda's strategy to sap and undermine the American economy, and shows how the United States played into the terrorist group's hands by expanding the battlefield and setting up an expensive homeland security bureaucracy that has difficulty dealing with a nimble, adaptive foe
  • Outlines how al Qaeda's economic plans have evolved toward an ultimate "strategy of a thousand cuts," which involves smaller yet more frequent attacks against Western societies
  • Shows how the domestic politicization of terrorism has weakened the United States, skewing its priorities and causing it to misallocate counterterrorism resources
  • Offers a practical plan for building domestic resiliency against terrorist attacks, and escaping the mistakes that have undermined America's war against its jihadist foes
Clearly written and powerfully argued by a prominent counterterrorism expert, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what al Qaeda is really after and how the United States can thwart its goals—or help unwittingly to achieve them.

Recenzii

* "A remarkable and laudable work.... In a narrative that somehow manages to be both concise and comprehensive, the author lays out the multiple battlefields and competing strategies of both al Qaeda and the United States.... Gartenstein-Ross brings his rational voice to an irrational world, proposing a set of operating principles to a security-policy machine that has inoculated itself against the very concept." (Foreign Policy) "Gartenstein-Ross' evaluation of al-Qaeda's strategy, means, and intentions is without equal, as is his analysis of America's missteps during the War on Terror.) (Small Wars Journal)
"Urgent without being alarmist and eminently readable, Bin Laden's Legacy is a testament to Gartenstein-Ross's deep knowledge of his field and his capacity to cut through feeble arguments to lay out only the most salient evidence. His legal training combines neatly with his moderate, academic approach to produce arguments so logical that they seem obvious at first glance; only later does the reader realize this is a fresh read on the past 10 years of counterterrorism efforts. (NDU Press Blog)

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Advance Praise for "BIN LADEN'S LEGACY" "Daveed Gartenstein-Ross has written an analytically sharp, fluidly written account of al Qaeda and its affiliates in the post-bin Laden era. It makes for sobering and essential reading."
--Peter Bergen, author of "The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al Qaeda"
"Bin Laden's Legacy is an important and timely work, especially in the aftermath of bin Laden's killing. It is one of the few books to probe systematically the movement's strategy and its effect on the U.S. and its allies. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is to be commended for his insightful analysis, and his sound policy recommendations will be of interest to scholars and policymakers alike."
--Bruce Hoffman, Director, Center for Peace and Security Studies, Georgetown University
"By an astute and penetrating analysis of al Qaeda's strategy, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross unveils the potentially devastating flaws in U.S. strategy. His recommendations must be seriously considered by policymakers and all Americans concerned with their nation's security."
--Steven Metz, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute; author of "Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy"
"This book is an important contribution to the post-bin Laden debate about how to fight terrorism smarter and cheaper at a time of constraints on America's power and purse."
--Clark Kent Ervin, former Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security
"Gartenstein-Ross's provocative arguments should push policymakers to carefully examine their assumptions about the struggle with al Qaeda. Whether you agree with his thesis, Gartenstein-Ross provides a useful counterweight to the mainstream security narrative in Washington."
--Congressman Hank Johnson (D.-Georgia), House Armed Services Committee
"Gartenstein-Ross has written an informative, contrarian, and crisply written study of al Qaeda and the U.S. response, exploring not only Iraq and Afghanistan but also important but neglected issues such as the economic dimensions of al Qaeda's strategy and the politics of U.S. counterterrorism."
--Daniel Byman, Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
"A deeply researched and riveting account of the evolutionary strategy of al Qaeda and why the death of bin Laden is simply 'the end of the beginning.' Gartenstein-Ross's extraordinary work provides valuable insight on the adaptive capacity and international complexities of this non-state sponsored transnational threat, which has been able to engage in a war with the world's remaining superpower. Truly a must-read!"
--Erroll G. Southers, Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California and Associate Director, Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events