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Decoding Al-Qaeda's Strategy: The Deep Battle Against America

By Michael Ryan

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780231533270
DOI
10.7312/ryan16384
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1779042 bytes)
Pages
368\368
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 00:14:40

Description

By consulting the work of well-known and obscure al-Qaeda theoreticians, Michael W. S. Ryan finds jihadist terrorism strategy 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 an effective framework for analyzing al-Qaeda's plans against America and constructs a compelling counternarrative to the West's supposed "war on Islam." The first book to draw a blueprint for defeating al-Qaeda on ideological rather than military grounds.

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