Strategic culture and violent non-state actors
Subtitle: weapons of mass destruction and asymmetrical operations concepts and cases
By: James M. Smith, Jerry Mark Long, Thomas H. Johnson.
Contributors: Long, Jerry M. 1951-; Johnson, Thomas H.; USAF Institute for National Security Studies.
Series: INSS occasional paper -- 64
Publisher: USAF Institute for National Security Studies
Published: 2008
Place of publication: USAF Academy, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
Subjects: Qaida (Organization); Taliban; Strategic culture; National security; Non-state actors (International relations); Terrorism
Notes: "February 2008."

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available via the Internet from the INSS web site. Address as of 9/11/08: http://www.usafa.af.mil/df/inss/docs/StrategicCulture.pdf; current access available via PURL.
Table of contents: title: Strategic culture and violent non-state actors: concepts and templates for analysis / James M. Smith; title: Strategic culture, al-Qaida, and weapons of mass destruction / Jerry Mark Long; title: The Taliban insurgency and its tribal dynamics: an analysis of shabnamah (night letters) / Thomas H. Johnson.