Terrorist Perspectives Project: Strategic and Operational Views of Al Qaida and Associated Movements

This timely book synthesizes the perspectives of Osama bin Laden and his fellow Salafi jihadists on how to wage war on their enemies. A team of experts from the Institute for Defense Analyses undertook the study to help U.S. military and civilian policymakers, planners, and educators better understand terrorists. In assembling strategic and operational perspectives of Al Qaida and Associated Movements (AQAM), the team focus on the Salafi jihadists’ intellectual leadership and a sampling of their followers, who together comprise the vanguard of the global jihad and share a common enemy - the United States AUTHOR: Mark E. Stout is a research staff member with the Institue for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, VA, who previously served in the Department of the Army, the Department of State, and the Central Intelligence Agency. John R. Schindler is a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI, who served for nearly a decade with the National Security Agency and has published widely on terrorism. Jessica M. Huckabey is an adjunct research staff member with IDA and an information warfare officer in the Navy Reserve. Jim Lacey is a former U.S. Army Infantry officer and IDA analyst. He and Stout were co-authors of The Iraqi Perspectives Report 12 b/w photos + 1 x map