Understanding The War On Terror

by Hoge, James F., Jr.; Rose, Gideon

• ISBN13: 9780876093474
• ISBN10: 0876093470
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-22
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations

Summary

On the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States awoke to find itself at war. If that much was clear, however, many other things were notincluding the identity and nature of the enemy, the location of the battleground, and the strategy and tactics necessary for victory. In this collection, the editors of Foreign Affairs have brought together, from a variety of sources, the most authoritative contributions to the debate over the nation's most important security challenge. Contributors include: The 9/11 Commission, Richard Betts, Max Boot, Ladan Boroumand, Roya Boroumand, George W. Bush, Grenville Byford, Thomas Carothers, Stephen Cohen, Alan Cullison, Paula J. Dobriansky, Michael Doran, James Fallows, Stephen Flynn, F. Gregory Gause, Barton Gellman, Reuel Marc Gerecht, John Gershman, Michael Howard, Walter Laqueur, Dafna Linzer, Michael O'Hanlon, Paul Pillar, Kenneth Roth, Jessica Stern, Ruth Wedgwood, and Fareed Zakaria.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Gideon Rose
I The Enemy
We Have Some Planes	2	(29)
The 9/11 Commission
Overview of the Enemy	31	(15)
9/11 Commission Staff Statement No 15 June 16, 2004
Outline of the 9/11 Plot	46	(26)
9/11 Commission Staff Statement No. 16 June 16, 2004
Somebody Else's Civil War	72	(20)
Foreign Affairs---January/February 2002
Michael Scott Doran
Inside Al-Qaeda's Hard Drive	92	(24)
The Atlantic Monthly---September 2004
Alan Cullison
Why Do They Hate Us?	116	(18)
Newsweek---October 15, 2004
Fareed Zakaria
Terror, Islam, and Democracy	134	(20)
Journal of Democracy---Spring 2002
Ladan Boroumand
Roya Boroumand
Left, Right, and Beyond---The Changing Face of Terror	154	(12)
How Did This Happen?---Public Affairs, 2001
Walter Laqueur
II The War
Counterterrorism Before 9/11: National Policy Coordination	166	(16)
9/11 Commission Staff Statement No. 8 March 24, 2004
Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People	182	(8)
September 20, 2001
George W. Bush
A Flawed Masterpiece	190	(11)
Foreign Affairs---May/June 2002
Michael E. O'hanlon
The Jihadist Threat to Pakistan	201	(22)
Cohen The Washington Quarterly---Summer 2003
Stephen Philip
Saudi Arabia and the War on Terrorism	223	(11)
A Practical Guide to Winning the War on Terrorism---Hoover Institution Press, 2004
F. Gregory Gause III
Is Southeast Asia the Second Front?	234	(14)
Foreign Affairs---July/August 2002
John Gershman
Promoting Democracy and Fighting Terror	248	(14)
Foreign Affairs---January/February 2003
Thomas Carothers
Response: Democracy Promotion	262	(8)
Foreign Affairs---May/June 2003
Paula J. Dobriansky
Thomas Carothers
III The Home Front
America the Vulnerable	270	(15)
Foreign Affairs---January/February 2002
Stephen E. Flynn
Fixing Intelligence	285	(17)
Foreign Affairs---January/February 2002
Richard K. Betts
The Law of War in the War on Terror	302	(9)
Foreign Affairs---January/February 2004
Kenneth Roth
Response: Combatants or Criminals?	311	(7)
Foreign Affairs---May/June 2004
Ruth Wedgwood
Kenneth Roth
IV Less or More?
What's in a Name?	318	(8)
Foreign Affairs---January/February 2002
Michael Howard
The Wrong War	326	(9)
Foreign Affairs---July/August 2002
Grenville Byford
The End of Appeasement	335	(19)
The Weekly Standard---February 10, 2003
Max Boot
V The State of Play
The Protean Enemy	354	(13)
Foreign Affairs---July/August 2003
Jessica Stern
Counterterrorism After Al Qaeda	367	(15)
The Washington Quarterly---Summer 2004
Paul R. Pillar
Not a Diversion	382	(10)
The Weekly Standard---April 12-19, 2004
Reuel Marc Gerecht
Bush's Lost Year	392	(27)
The Atlantic---October 2004
James Fallows
Afghanistan, Iraq: Two Wars Collide	419	(14)
The Washington Post---October 22, 2004
Barton Gellman
Dafna Linzer
Contributors	433