Find, Fix, Finish

by Peritz, Aki; Rosenbach, Eric

• ISBN13: 9781610391283
• ISBN10: 1610391284
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-13
• Publisher: Public Affairs

Summary

On 9/11 the U.S. had effectively no counterterrorism doctrine. Fast forward ten years: Osama bin Laden is dead; al Qaeda is organizationally ruined and pinned in the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan; there has been no major attack on American soil; and while there has been at least one instance of a massive planned attack, it was crushed by the greatest international collaboration of intelligence services seen since the end of the Cold War. It's been a remarkable transformation. Aki Peritz and Eric Rosenbach have experienced first-hand the monumental strategy changes in our country's counterterrorism strategy within the intelligence, defense, and political communities. In this book, they show how America learned to be very good at taking on the terrorists, often one at a time, in ever more lethally incisive operations. They offer new details behind some headlines from the last decade. They are frank about the mistakes that have been made. And they explain how a concept coined by General Grant during the Civil War has been reinvented in the age of satellite technology to manage a globally distributed foe, allowing the U.S. to find, fix, and finish its enemies.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Fire from the Sky: The Find-Fix-Finish Doctrine in Action	p. 1
Atrophy: National Security Before 9/11	p. 13
The Search for Mr. #3	p. 35
The Finishing Never Ends: How Far Will America Go?	p. 57
Interrogations, Intelligence, and War	p. 79
Counterterrorism in a War Zone	p. 107
Bojinka Redux: The Need for Good International Cop Work	p. 135
An Increasing Preference for Lethal Ends	p. 149
The Enemy Within	p. 167
America's Future: Shadow Wars in Yemen and Somalia	p. 185
Geronimo	p. 207
To Thine Own Self Be True	p. 219
Acknowledgments	p. 239
Appendices	p. 241
Notes	p. 253
Index	p. 297
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