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This thesis examines U.S. presidential decisions to take risks in countering terrorism. A particular counter-terrorist (CT) option is determined to be risky, or more risky than another, if it has the greatest variance in outcome: if it produces the worst outcome if it fails and …

This thesis is a history of the Polish Country Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British organisation whose purpose was to infiltrate agents behind enemy lines during World War II. The thesis covers the period 1940 – 1946, the entire period that SOE existed, a…

Afghan National Police (ANP) and United States Special Operations Forces (USSOF) in Afghanistan have overlapping mandates that include the prosecution of terrorists, criminals, and insurgents. Although published literature acknowledges that this overlap creates jurisdictional pr…

The pursuit of national security objectives by, with, and through partnered non-state groups, also called unconventional warfare (UW), has long offered the promise of victory without the costs or risks associated with a large-scale military intervention. For these reasons and pe…

On 11 September 2001, in a period of less than three hours, almost 3000 Americans had been killed in a sophisticated series of coordinated terrorist attacks. The United States found itself thrust into war. This new war was, and remains, very different from the wars the United St…