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Containment - A Viable Strategy for Success in the GWOT (Paperback)
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Containment - A Viable Strategy for Success in the GWOT (Paperback)
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The purpose of this monograph is to investigate the nature of
militant Islam in the context of a global ideological threat; to
further examine the strategic concepts associated with the theory
of containment developed to win the Cold War; and propose an
alternative national strategy of containment to successfully
execute the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). The first section
defines the nature of the global threat of militant Islamic
fundamentalism, and its goals regarding expansion and the threat to
the US and the West. The defined threat was derived through
research of current US national strategy documents and the
declassified national intelligence assessment, recent academic
publications, and released statements and publications of militant
leaders such as Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri. Once defined,
key similarities of this current and future threat and the Cold War
threat of Soviet Communism are identified from primary documents on
American policy and strategy from 1945-1950, and secondary sources
associated with the strategy of containment. The critical aspect of
this comparison is the analysis of regional and global aims of the
threat, and intentions for expansion. This comparison is not
exhaustive, but merely adequate to ensure that a counter-strategy
of containment is worth pursuit. The key element is the comparison
of the similarities of ideological threats across all spectrums of
international power and influence. The second section analyzes the
successful Cold War strategy of containment and identifies key
concepts that can be successful in the containment of militant
Islam. The analysis focuses on former national programs designed to
leverage the elements of power in support of containment of Soviet
communism. Sources for this section are documents on American
policy and strategy that originated between 1945 and 1950 that
focus on containment strategy and secondary sources that analyze
the concepts and doctrine of containment itself. The third section
proposes a viable strategy of containment based on George F.
Kennan's Cold War containment strategy to counter militant Islam
and successfully prosecute the GWOT in terms of a "long war." Some
modifications for context and specifics of the threat are applied
to make such a strategy most effective today. The criteria used to
analyze the viability of a strategy of containment for the GWOT is
founded on a definition of the theory of strategy and a common
model for analyzing and evaluating strategy by breaking it into its
component parts. Using Art Lykke's definition of strategy and his
model, the proposed strategy of containment is evaluated to
determine acceptability, feasibility, and suitability to prosecute
the global war on terrorism. Militant Islam has proven itself to be
the only truly totalitarian movement in the world today, and
regards itself as the only rival, and the inevitable successor to
Western civilization. This form of extremism is extricable from
Islam itself, but the US cannot unilaterally fix the internal
problems of the Muslim world. However, the US can provide critical
help while at the same time defending the American population at
home. A strategy of containment modified for the current realities
of the post Cold War world against a new global threat with similar
tendencies is viable and worth strong consideration. A cornerstone
of the strategy is weakening militant Islamists where they are in
power, containing their expansion, and better encouraging
vulnerable governments to resist. This approach takes advantage of
strategic concepts of containment previously successful in winning
a "long war." The threat of expansion of militant Islam is indeed a
global threat similar to that of the global threat of Communism,
and a comprehensive strategy of containment similar to that of
previous successful US strategies during the Cold War provides a
fundamental basis for a successful long term contemporary strategy
to contain it.
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