Know thy enemy
Subtitle: profiles of adversary leaders and their strategic cultures
By: edited by Barry R. Schneider and Jerrold M. Post
Contributors: USAF Counterproliferation Center
Publisher: USAF Counterproliferation Center, Air War College, Air University
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: International Security; Asymmetric warfare; Deterrence (Strategy); Aggression (International law); Weapons of mass destruction
Notes: "November 2002."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Deterring international rivals from war and escalation / Barry R. Schneider; title: 2. Killing in the name of God: Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda / Jerrold M. Post; title: 3. The Muslim brotherhood and Islamic radicalism / Gary M. Servold; title: 4. Struggle for the control of Pakistan: Musharraf takes on the Islamist radicals / Stephen F. Burgess; title: 5. Kim Chong-il's erratic decision making and North Korea's strategic culture / Merrily Baird; title: 6. The crucible of radical Islam: Iran's leaders and strategic culture / Gregory F. Giles; title: 7. "Saddam is Iraq: Iraq is Saddam" / Jerrold M. Post and Amatzia Baram; title: 8. Syria under Bashar al-Asad: clinging to his roots? / Christopher Hemmer; title: 9. Muammar Qaddafi and Libya's strategic culture / Craig R. Black; title: 10. The need for influence theory and actor-specific behavioral models of adversaries / Alexander L. George; title: 11. Precise assessments of rivals vital in asymmetric was threat environment / Jerrold M. Post and Barry R. Schneider.