UNITED STATES: Counter-terror strategy needs rethink
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- Unexamined assumptions
- New 'mass terrorism'
- A formidable enemy
- 'Rogue state' role
- An 'existential threat'
- 'War on terror'
- The 'security executive'
- 'Enhanced interrogation'
- Extra-judicial internment
- 'Extraordinary rendition'
- Domestic espionage
- Overseas military campaigns
- Afghanistan
- Iraq
- Intolerance for risk
- Lack of progress
- Attacks and casualties
- Anti-American sentiment
- Scholarly critiques
- Exaggerated threat?
- Poor understanding of terrorism
- Nature of terrorism
- Nature of threat
- WMD and terrorism
- Criminals, not lunatics
- Limits of force
- Principles as weapons
- Alternative approaches
- Strategic risk reassessment
- Addressing terrorist motives
- Managing risk perceptions
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