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Decoding Al-Qaeda's Strategy - The Deep Battle Against America (Hardcover)
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Decoding Al-Qaeda's Strategy - The Deep Battle Against America (Hardcover)
Series: Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
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Consulting the work of well-known and obscure al-Qaeda
theoreticians, Michael W. S. Ryan finds Jihadist terrorism has more
in common with the principles of Maoist guerrilla warfare than
mainstream Islam. Encouraging strategists and researchers to devote
greater attention to Jihadi ideas rather than Jihadist military
operations, Ryan builds a more effective framework for analyzing
al-Qaeda's plans against America and constructs a more compelling
counternarrative to the West's supposed war on Islam. Ryan uniquely
examines the Salafist Jihadist roots of al-Qaeda ideology and the
contributions of its most famous founders, Osama Bin Laden and
Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a political-military context. He also reads
the Arabic-language works of lesser known theoreticians who have
played an instrumental role in framing al-Qaeda's so-called war of
the oppressed. These authors readily cite the guerrilla strategies
of Mao, Che Guevara, and the mastermind of the Vietnam War, General
Giap. They also incorporate the arguments of American theorists
writing on fourth generation warfare.By examining these texts,
readers experience events as insiders see them, and by
concentrating on the activities and pronouncements of al-Qaeda's
thought leaders, especially in Yemen, they discern the direct link
between al-Qaeda's tactics and trends in anti-U.S. terrorism. Ryan
shows al-Qaeda's political-military strategy to be a revolutionary
and largely secular departure from a classic Muslim conception of
jihad, adding an invaluable dimension to the operational,
psychological, and informational strategies already deployed by
America's military in the region.
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