Terrorist acts such as the bombing of the World Trade Centre are a reminder that terrorism is capable of affecting US citizens gravely. This work traces the evolution of international terrorism against civilian and US military targets, and proposes strategies for its containment.

This analysis descrobes in counterinsurgency terms where the United States has gone wrong in Iraq; what unique challenges the conflictpresents to coalition military forces; and what light both shed on future counterinsurgency planning, operations, and requirements.

When Algerian nationalists launched a rebellion against French rule in November 1954, France was forced to cope with a varied and adaptable Algerian strategy. In this volume, originally published in 1963, David Galula reconstructs the story of his highly successful command at the height of the rebellion. This groundbreaking work, with a new foreword by Bruce Hoffman, remains relevant to present-day counterinsurgency operations.

Examining major terrorist acts and campaigns undertaken in the decade following September 11, 2001, internationally recognized scholars study the involvement of global terrorist leaders and organizations in these incidents and the planning, organization, execution, recruitment, and training that went into them. Their work captures the changing character of al-Qaeda and its affiliates since the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the sophisticated elements that, despite the West's best counterterrorism efforts, continue to exert substantial direction over jihadist terrorist operations....