Al-Qaida after ten years of war
Subtitle: a global perspective of successes, failures, and prospects
By: edited by Norman L. Cigar and Stephanie E. Kramer
Contributors: Marine Corps University (U.S.). Press
Publisher: Marine Corps University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Quantico, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780160902994
Subjects: Qaida (Organization); Terrorism; Congresses
Description: Since the September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the United States has been at war with al-Qaida. Over the past 10 years, counterterrorism efforts have disrupted its main training facilities and eliminated much of the core leadership structure, including the mastermind Usama Bin Ladin. Despite this, al-Qaida has proved resilient. While the core leadership has been compromised, regional al-Qaida offshoots and affiliated Islamist terrorist groups have formed, developed, and become prominent in their own right. To aid in examining and explaining al-Qaida's trajectory, the Minerva Initiative at Marine Corps University hosted a conference in the spring of 2011, just days before Bin Ladin's demise. The panels at this conference addressed diverse issues such as al-Qaida's overarching strategy; the degree of control that central al-Qaida leadership maintains over regional franchises; and the strategies, tactics, successes, and failures in each theater of operation. The resulting papers contribute to the ongoing and ever-evolving net assessment of al-Qaida and its future prospects, and they help inform the crafting of a war termination phase with al-Qaida.
Notes: Shipping list no.: 2012-0233-P.

"The papers that follow are the proceedings of the Marine Cors. University conference "Al-Qaida after Ten Years of War: A Global Perspective of Successes, Failures, and prospects"--P. v.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Keynote address :; title: the deep fight  -- Michael V. Hayden; title: Al-Qaida's war with the United Nations and the state system  -- Christopher C. Harmon; title: Al-Qaida's theater strategy :; title: waging a world war  -- Norman Cigar; title: East Africa and the Horn  -- David H. Shinn; title: The state of al-Qaida in Southeast Asia ten years since 9/11  -- Adam Dolnik; title: Al-Qaida and terrorism in the Arab East :; title: rise, decline, and the effects of doctrine revisions and the Arab revolutions  -- Amr Abdalla and Arezou Hassanzadeh; title: Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb  -- Ricardo René Larémont; title: Al-Qaida and Central Asia :; title: a slowly developing and multipurpose presence  -- Michael F. Scheuer; title: Power by proxy :; title: al-Qaida in Pakistan  -- Haider Ali Hussein Mullick; title: Toward a differential analysis of al-Qaida and the jihadist terrorist threat to Western European nations  -- Fernando Reinares; title: Al-Qaida and the United States :; title: a panel presentation -- Peter Bergen.