Katz, Samuel M. Global Counterstrike: International Counterterrorism. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing Group, 2004. Katz, Samuel M. Global Counterstrike: International Counterterrorism. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing Group, 2004.
This book is targeted at ages 9-12.
Katz, Samuel M. Relentless Pursuit: The DSS and the Manhunt for the Al-Qaeda Terrorists. New York: Forge, 2002.
Peake, Studies 48.3 (2004), finds that the focus here is on the role of the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) "in the fight against terrorism and the hunt for Ramzi Yousef.... The seldom mentioned DSS agents have a difficult job, and Katz tells their story well."
Katz, Samuel M. U.S. Counterstrike: American Counterterrorism. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing Group, 2004.
This book is targeted at ages 9-12.
Katzman, Kenneth. Terrorism: Near Eastern Groups and State Sponsors, 2001. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 10 Sep. 2001.
A copy of this report is available at: http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL31119.pdf.
Kessler, Ronald. The CIA at War: Inside the Secret Campaign against Terror. New York: St. Martin's, 2003.
Seamon, Proceedings, Dec. 2003, says that the author "has written a comprehensive history brightened by anecdotes and deftly drawn character sketches. The war ... turns out to be as much an internal squabble ... and a disappointing scrap with other government agencies as it is an after-action report on the company's often unheralded successes against terrorists of all varieties, to say nothing of its spectacular failures."
For Peake, Studies 48.3 (2004), even though this book "is not a history, those unfamiliar with the Agency will get a good overview of its pre-9/11 activity.... The treatment is balanced, though not always accurate."
On the other hand, Chapman, IJI&C 17.4 (Winter 2004-2005), finds this work "unbalanced and way off the mark." While reading The CIA at War, the reviewer "slipped into thinking I was into another Tom Clancy novel."
Kessler, Ronald. The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack. New York: Crown, 2007.
Sinai, Intelligencer 16.1 (Spring 2008), sees this as "a remarkably insightful and revealing look at how U.S. counterterrorism agancies and their top players conducted America's attacks on al Qaeda and its affiliates prior to and following September 11." Kessler's "unparalleled access to top players in America's counterterroism campaign allowed him a rare glimpse into their tradecraft, making The Terrorism Watch a riveting account."
Khalsa, Sundri. Forecasting Terrorism: Indicators and Proven Analytic Techniques. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2004.
Peake, Studies 50.3 (Sep. 2006) and Intelligencer 15.2 (Fall/Winter 2006-2007), notes that the author, a U.S. Air Force captain "wrote this book while attending the Joint Military Intelligence College and working as a DIA analyst." Khalsa suggests that the "solution to the forecasting problem ... is a structured, computerized methodology, the use of which is the main topic of the book.... [A] CD is provided that illustrates the procedures in the text. The quality of the CD is not good and that does not help when trying to follow the often complicated instructions in the book.... Khalsa has developed an interesting approach to forecasting acts of terror but it needs considerable real-world testing and refinement before its operational value can be assessed."
Kronenwetter, Michael. Terrorism: A Guide to Events and Documents. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004.
Mulloy, H-Amstdy, H-Net Reviews, Mar. 2006 [http://www.h-net.org], notes that this is an "introductory work"; its "chapters are short, broadly informative, and the writing clear and accessible." owever, despite the author's "repeated emphasis on the importance of understanding the specific context and circumstances that produce terrorism, one finds very little of the necessary social, political, and economic background one needs to understand its history.... Kronenwetter's preference for narrative detail over analysis and explanation leaves one largely [to] one's own devices in assessing what is important and what is not in the events being discussed."
Krueger, Alan, and David Laitin. "Misunderstanding Terrorism." Foreign Affairs 83 (Sep./Oct. 2004): 8-13.
Lancaster, Carol. "Poverty, Terrorism, and National Security." Environmental Change & Security Project Report 9 (2003): 19-22.
"[P]overty is not a major or direct cause of terrorism, and ... eliminating poverty will not eliminate terrorism.... [While] the United States should and must work to eliminate poverty in the world[,]... U.S. policymakers and citizens should not fool themselves that reducing poverty will eliminate terrorism."
Lance, Peter. Cover Up: What the Government Is Still Hiding about the War on Terror. New York: Regan Books, HarperCollins, 2004.
Peake, Studies 49.1 (2005), comments that this book "is speculation mixed with sour grapes until real evidence is produced."
Lance, Peter.
1. 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI -- The Untold Story. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.
According to Peake, Studies 48.3 (2004), the author "finds widespread fault and is pessimistic about improvements, even from the congressional commissions."
2. Triple Cross: How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI -- and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him. New York: Regan, 2006.
Peake, Studies 51.2 (2007), notes that this work continues the author's story of Ali Mohammed (begun in 1000 Years for Revenge). He also provides other, new "dots"; the problem is that "it is by no means clear how they connect."
Laqueur, Walter. No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Continuum, 2003.
Bergen, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2003, finds that the author provides "a comprehensive and learned account of what terrorism in the 21st century is likely to look like." The work "raises a number of vital, serious points that can be all too easily drowned out by the alarmist pitch of today's political debates over terrorism's causes and remedies." Laqueur "is not as sanguine as some observers about the eventual withering of political Islam."
For Singer, Parameters 34.2, this is "an essential resource to understanding terrorism." Because of his research on the subject over decades, Laqueur is "able to make the historic connections and grounded analysis that others lack." The author is "to be commended for the extensive bibliography at the end, providing essentially the entire library of terrorist studies for analysts and researchers starting off in the field."
Ledeen, Michael A. The War against the Terror Masters. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
According to Van Tol, Naval War College Review, Spring 2003, the author "presents a compelling picture of what the [terrorism] threat actually is, how it developed, and how the United States can and must defeat it. He avers that this war is ... is specifically about Islamic ... terrorism -- motivated and underwritten by militant Islamic fundamentalism and abetted by many regional regimes."
Leer, Rensselaer, and Raphael Perl. Terrorism, the Future, and U.S. Foreign Policy. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2002.
Available at: http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/IB95112.pdf.
Lewis, Bernard. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror. New York: Random House, 2003.
Singer, Parameters 34.2, notes that while this "book breaks little new ground in either analysis or research, it does provide an easy-to-read general introduction to Lewis’s line of argument.... Lewis’s thesis describes Islam as a doctrine that rejects modernity, in lieu of a more sacred past, and is thus placed in a continual clash with the Judeo-Christian West.... The book has serious flaws, though.... In making a fairly monolithic analysis of Islam, Lewis’s one-size-fits-all approach risks misdiagnosis and clearly misses the wide diversity and great debates within the Islamic world.... [T]he book [also] suffers from the fatal flaw of much in the field, spending all of its energy in analyzing the problems, but offering little in the way of solutions."
Mandel, Robert. "Fighting Fire with Fire: Privatizing Counterterrorism." In Defeating Terrorism: Shaping the New Security Environment, eds. Russell D. Howard and Reid L. Sawyer, 62-73. Guilford, CT.: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2004.
Miller, John, and Michael Stone, with Chris Mitchell. The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It. New York: Hyperion, 2002.
Peake, Studies 48.3 (2004), calls this book "a worthwhile working-level view of the pre-9/11 counterterrorist problems from a New York perspective."
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