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 | HANDBOOK OF TERRORISM PREVENTION AND PREPAREDNESS By International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - – The Hague
The idea for this Handbook of Terrorism Prevention and Preparedness goes back twenty years.
I first had the desire to put together such a Handbook two decades ago when, between 1999
and 2005, I was Officer-in-Charge of the Terrorism Prevention Branch (TPB) of the UN Office
on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna, Austria. In the wake of the events of 9/11, those
were very busy days. However, not only was there not enough time to write or assemble such
a volume, I did not have a mandate from ...Read more > | 1312 Pages 13.95 MB |
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 | ISIS’S SECOND COMEBACK: ASSESSING THE NEXT ISIS INSURGENCY By Jennifer Cafarella with Brandon Wallace and Jason Zhou
The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) is not
defeated despite the loss of the territory it claimed
as its so-called ‘Caliphate’ in Iraq and Syria. It is
stronger today than its predecessor Al Qaeda in
Iraq (AQI) was in 2011, when the U.S. withdrew
from Iraq. AQI had around 700-1000 fighters
then. ISIS had as many as 30,000 fighters in Iraq
and Syria in August 2018 according to a Defense
Intelligence Agency estimate. ISIS built from the
small remnant left in 2011 an army ...Read more > | 76 Pages 7.29 MB |
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 | THE REAL WORLD CAPABILITIES OF ISIS: THE THREAT CONTINUES By Anthony H. Cordesman
Politics are politics, but there are serious dangers in making claims about the ability to defeat
terrorism in general – and ISIS in particular. One of the most critical limits to the way both
Democratic and Republican Administrations have fought the “war” on terrorism is that they have
treated it largely as a military struggle against individual terrorist and extremist movements, rather
than as a broader campaign to deal with a range of threats that cannot be defeated without ...Read more > | 10 Pages 1.12 MB |
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 | RETHINKING COUNTERINSURGENCY By John Mackinlay, Alison Al-Baddawy
The contemporary international security environment has become a frustrating place for Western powers. Even with great technological and military advances, British and U.S. counterinsurgency (COIN) operations have been slow ...Read more > | 81 Pages 645.44 KB |
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 | LIFEBLOOD OF TERRORISM By Vivek Chadha
The financing of terrorism and its related activities may be ages old, however, formal direction to counter this threat is a relatively new phenomenon.While initiatives commenced internationally in ...Read more > | 274 Pages 3.55 MB |
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 | GLOBAL TERRORISM INDEX 2014
This is the second edition of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI)report which provides a comprehensive summary of the key global trends and patterns in terrorism over the last 14 years beginning in 2000 and ending in 2013. ...Read more > | 94 Pages 4.24 MB |
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 | KEY ELEMENTS OF THE COUNTERTERRORISM CHALLENGE By Thomas M. Sanderson
Countering terrorism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) today is a complex endeavor. Heightened political turmoil combined with socioeconomic pressures creates conditions conducive to armed militant activity. ...Read more > | 56 Pages 376.98 KB |
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 | CYBERTERRORISM AFTER STUXNET By Thomas M Chen
Terrorists are known to use the Internet for communications, planning, recruitment, propaganda, and reconnaissance.They have shown interest in carrying out cyberattacks on U.S. critical infrastructures, although no such serious attacks are known publicly
to have ...Read more > | 44 Pages 2.66 MB |
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