Skirmishes at the Edge of Empire: The United States and International Terrorism

by David Tucker

Overview

Over the past 25 years, the United States government has developed, through trial and error, both an understanding of terrorism and the means to deal with it. Using information collected in interviews with key decisionmakers from the Nixon to the Clinton administrations, David Tucker draws both strategic and tactical lessons from the United States' encounters with various terrorist groups. These lessons can be usefully applied to future counterterrorism efforts, as well as to other aspects of national security policy in a post-Cold War world where major conflicts will continue to be played out in numerous small struggles. This study will be must-reading for scholars and professionals in international relations, foreign policy, and military/political affairs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275957629
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/28/1997
Series:	Collection
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile:	1510L (what's this?)

About the Author

DAVID TUCKER is Acting Director of Policy Planning in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict). He is coeditor (with C. Harmon) of Statecraft and Power (1994) and holds a Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate School in California.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
The Development of U.S. Capabilities to Combat Terrorism
Definition
Methods
Organization
Strategy
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Assesses US experience with terrorism within the wider context of political-military problems, and argues that terrorism is representative of a kind of political violence that differs from war not in degree alone but in kind as well. Offers a brief history of US experience with terrorism, an analysis of US response, and an assessment of the strategic significance of terrorism. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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