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Salon.com November 1, 2001 Laura Miller |
Who is Osama bin Laden? Is he a cog in a vast wheel of state-sponsored terrorism -- or a new breed of freelance evil genius? |
Wired December 2001 John Arquilla & David Ronfeldt |
Fighting The Network War Conventional military power stands little chance against a band of swarming 14th-century terrorists, according to the authors, RAND analysts who wrote the book on "netwar." Here's their five-point plan to tear apart the terror network... |
Parameters Spring 2004 Matthew J. Morgan |
The Origins of the New Terrorism A history of terrorism and where it's headed. |
Salon.com February 12, 2001 Ted Rose |
The invisible man As the African embassy bombing trial begins, Osama bin Laden casts a long shadow... |
Parameters Summer 2006 Shawn Brimley |
Tentacles of Jihad: Targeting Transnational Support Networks As the five-year anniversary of the 11 September attacks approaches, America faces an enemy that is both a transnational organization and a growing ideological movement. As long as the war in Iraq continues, more recruits will join the disparate terror networks that feed off the conflict. |
Salon.com October 11, 2002 William M. Arkin |
Sept. 11 and wars of the world Osama and Saddam pose real threats, but the Bush administration may be too incompetent -- and too arrogant -- to stop them. |
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 Charles Perrow |
Shrink The Targets Human nature can better withstand a dozen small disasters than a single great one, even if the casualty total is the same. Protecting America's big targets is next to impossible; we should instead downsize them to make them less consequential and easier to protect. |
National Defense January 2006 Abshire & Czerwinski |
With an Overstretched Military, U.S. Should Create `Home Guard' The U.S. presence in Iraq has in many ways made near-term gains in the war on terror more difficult and thrown America's homeland security into question. But a creative solution with roots reaching far back into American history may be the answer. |
Salon.com September 12, 2002 Robert Scheer |
Where's Osama? Sept. 11 could have been avoided if our intelligence agencies had done their job. |
Salon.com October 8, 2001 Gary Kamiya |
War and peace Our fight against terrorism gives the U.S. a historic opportunity to become a kinder, gentler force in the world... |
Reason November 2003 Tim Cavanaugh |
Talking With Terrorists Jessica Stern's new book reports from the front lines of the War on Terror. |
Salon.com September 11, 2001 Flore de Preneuf |
Rejoicing in the streets of Jenin While many Palestinians celebrate the attack on the U.S., Yasser Arafat denounces it as "unacceptable" and Israelis mourn... |
Reason October 2002 Ted Carpenter |
Fixing Foreign Policy How the U.S. should wage the war on terror |
Reason May 2006 Brendan O'Neill |
The Shocking Truth About Osama bin Laden Perhaps bin Laden turned to the blogosphere after 9/11, in search of theories and arguments with which he might justify his murderous assault. He is less the armed wing of a clear or coherent Islamist worldview than he is the armed wing of the West's own fearful and tortured debates about war and terrorism today. |
BusinessWeek May 4, 2011 Brendan Greeley |
Why Bin Laden Lost Al Qaeda's leader died because he was outgunned. He lost because he was wrong. |
Parameters Summer 2004 P. W. Singer |
The War on Terrorism: The Big Picture In the fight against terrorism, are we deterring more terrorists than are being trained for the future? Are we spending so much money trying to capture them, that we're really getting behind? |
Reason October 2006 Walker & Gillespie |
The State of War and Domestic Terrorism In this interview, Chet Richards and John Mueller discuss where America is at five years after the 9/11 attacks. |
Salon.com September 25, 2001 David Rieff |
There is no alternative to war Blame-the-U.S. pacifism misses the point. Bin Laden wants to eradicate Western modernity, not liberate Palestine, and the U.S. has no choice but to fight him... |
Salon.com December 14, 2001 Gawain Charlton-Perrin |
Are you ready to dance on Osama's grave? The apparent architect of our worst nightmare is seen celebrating our losses. Will we do the same when he comes to a violent end? |
National Defense February 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Military Officials Warn Al Qaeda Determined To Attack With WMD Most attacks probably would be small-scale, incorporating improvised delivery systems and easily produced chemicals, toxins or radiological substances. |
BusinessWeek September 6, 2004 Stanley Reed |
Prelude To Terror Book reviews: Osama, The Making of a Terrorist By Jonathan Randal... Ghost Wars, The The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 By Steve Coll... |
Wired July 21, 2008 Jonathan Stevenson |
Tackling al Qaeda Where It Thrives -- Online America's current counterterrorism measures can do no more than tenuously contain a threat whose radical ideology spreads like a virus through cyberspace. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 |
The 9/11 Report: Details of the central event of our time It's not the sophisticated sensors, signal processing, satellite communications, and automation technology that wins the day in the end; it's the people who use the technology that make the difference. |
Salon.com September 22, 2001 Sara Pursley |
It isn't just "freedom" they hate Those who rained terror upon the U.S. may have had real grievances -- and we shouldn't feel guilty about discussing them... |
The Motley Fool May 21, 2011 Arunava De |
Defense Investing in a Post-bin Laden World As war moves away from the battlefield with the help of 21st-century technology and tools such as UAVs begin to dominate, companies that specialize in these weapon systems stand to make significant gains. |
Salon.com November 21, 2001 Laura Miller |
The holy warrior The most entertaining of current books on Osama bin Laden paints him as a devout, charismatic CEO of worldwide terror... |
TIME Asia June 6, 2011 |
Inbox The end of bin laden... The lessons of terror... Jack Bauer's legacy... |
Mother Jones Jan/Feb 2002 Todd Gitlin |
Blaming America First Why are some on the left, who rightly demand sympathy for victims around the world, so quick to dismiss American suffering? |
InternetNews December 4, 2007 |
Al Qaeda-Linked Web Sites Proliferating A researcher found that more than 5,600 Al Qaeda-linked Web sites have sprouted up in the past few years and more than 900 are added each year. |
Salon.com September 11, 2001 Laura Miller |
A new breed of terrorism A security expert says it's time for the U.S. to declare war on those who are waging war on America... |
Reason October 2004 Nick Gillespie |
Rant: Orange You Glad He Didn't Say Red? Given that Bush is president due to the anti-government rhetoric that the GOP has mastered during the last 25 years, it's more than a little ironic that skepticism toward him may make it harder for him to prosecute effectively the war on terror. |
Parameters November 2004 |
Editor's Shelf For decades, indeed centuries, terrorists have been quietly gathering support throughout the world. But it took the events of 9/11 and the resulting global war on terror to turn the oblivious heads of most Americans. |
The Motley Fool August 2, 2004 Bob Bobala |
Wall Street on Alert As investors, we're just going to have to get used to al Qaeda targeting our financial institutions. But while our financial institutions may be under alert, your portfolio doesn't have to be. |