Ebook: Leadership Decapitation: Strategic Targeting of Terrorist Organizations
Author: Jenna Jordan
- Tags: Political Science / Security (national & International), Political Science / Terrorism
- Series: Studies in Violence and Terrorism
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Language: English
- epub
One of the central pillars of US counterterrorism policy is that capturing or killing a terrorist group's leader is effective. Yet this pillar rests more on a foundation of faith than facts. In Leadership Decapitation, Jenna Jordan examines over a thousand instances of leadership targeting-involving groups such as Hamas, al Qaeda, Shining Path, and ISIS-to identify the successes, failures, and unintended consequences of this strategy. As Jordan demonstrates, group infrastructure, ideology, and popular support all play a role in determining how and why leadership decapitation succeeds or fails. Taking heed of these conditions is essential to an effective counterterrorism policy going forward.
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