The Rise of Militant Islam: An Insider's View of the Failure to Curb Global Jihad - Couverture rigide

Tucker-Jones, Anthony

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1844159450 ISBN 13 : 9781844159451

Editeur : Pen & Sword Military, 2010

Synopsis

Unusual book

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Présentation de l'éditeur

At the end of the Cold War the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction replaced the Soviet Union as the new enemy of world peace. The pariah WMD states became enemy No. 1. The significance of militant Islam's growing disgust with Western foreign policy and apparent indifference to the suffering of Muslims worldwide was missed until it was too late.

In Rage of Islam Anthony Tucker-Jones examines from an insider's perspective how Western intelligence misinterpreted every landmark event on the road to 9/11 and ultimately failed to curb global jihad. The 9/11 attack provoked a 'War on Terror' which has yet to fully curb the threat of global jihad or bring ringleader Osama bin Laden to justice.

Anthony Tucker-Jones, who served in the Defense Intelligence Staff, the British Ministry of Defense's top intelligence assessment organization, gained an unparalleled insider's view of the growing war on terror and how the West's intelligence agencies were wrong-footed at almost every turn. He traces the rise of international terrorism and its networks throughout the Muslim world, in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Algeria, Chechnya, Somalia and across the Middle East, and he uncovers the connections between them. He shows how the key to the growth of Al Qaeda as a global terrorist organization was not only the emergence of Osama bin Laden, but also the growing understanding of asymmetrical warfare which the CIA had taught anti-Soviet jihadists in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

Biographie de l'auteur

After a career in the intelligence community Anthony Tucker-Jones established himself as a leading military historian and defence writer. He has had over 300 articles and features published, contributed to seven part works and written five books. For the past decade he has been a regular contributor to Military Illustrated, the UK's premier military history magazine. His work has covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

His most recent analysis of the war on terror has appeared in the highly respected intersec the Journal of International Security. He has also been widely published in AirForces Monthly, Air International, Aviation News, Warships International Fleet Review, and other publications devoted to modern warfare and defence studies.

He studied history at Portsmouth University and gained his MA in International Relations and Strategic Studies from Lancaster University. His most recent books are Hitler's Great Panzer Heist, Falaise: The Flawed Victory, Stalin's Revenge: Operation Bagration and the Annihilation of Army Group Centre and Operation Dragoon: The Liberation of Southern France 1944.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pen & Sword Military
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1844159450
• ISBN 13: 9781844159451
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224