"By consulting the work of well-known and obscure al-Qaeda theoreticians, Michael W.S. Ryan finds jihadist terrorism strategy has more in common with the principles of Maoist guerrilla warfare than mainstream Islam. Encouraging strategists and researchers to devote greater atten…
As an upbeat and peaceful uprising quickly and brutally descended into a zero-sum civil war, Syria has crumbled from a regional player into an arena in which a multitude of local and foreign actors compete. The volatile regional fault lines that run through Syria have ruptured d…
From Algeria to China, from Yemen to Europe, Islamic militancy appears stronger, more widespread and more threatening than ever. But what exactly is the nature of the new threat we now face? Drawing on almost two decades of first-hand expertise alongside a vast range of sources …
"This book assesses and explains the emergence since 2011 of Sunni jihadist organizations in Syria's fledgling insurgency, charts their evolution and situates them within the global Islamist project. Unprecedented numbers of foreign fighters have joined such groups, who will alm…
"Más de 150.000 terroristas, diseminados por 80 países, forman parte de Al Qaeda, la mayor y más desconocida amenaza para la seguridad mundial. Financiados por el narcotráfico, el secuestro y el blanqueo de dinero, estos terroristas tejen los nexos clandestinos de una hida de mi…
Based on exhaustive research and unprecedented access to White House officials, CIA analysts, Pakistani intelligence, and the military, this is the definitive account of ten years in pursuit of bin Laden and of the twilight of al-Qaeda
Revisiting The Far Enemy in this new edition, Gerges demonstrates that not only have the jihadists split ranks, but that voices from within the ultra-religious right, those that previously supported al Qaeda, are condemning its tactics as violent, unethical, and out of accord wi…
Forfatteren beskriver, hvordan operation Neptune Spear d. 2. maj 2011, hvorunder terrorlederen Osama bin Laden blev dræbt, blev planlagt og udført af en specialgruppe fra Navy Seals. Forfatteren, hvis rigtige navn er Matt Bissonnette, er tidligere medlem af specialgruppen "Seal …
Bogen undersøger de terrornetværk der opererer globalt, og diskuterer fremtiden for terrorisme samt oprør støttet af terrorister.
New York Times bestselling author Peter Bergen's definitive account of al Qaeda's evolution since 9/11 and the U.S. government's responses