Fighting the War on Terror: A Counterinsurgency Strategy - Hardcover

Drawing on decades of experience with counterinsurgency—as a scholar, strategist, and military officer—James S. Corum addresses the greatest threat facing America today: how to fight and defeat “non-state” enemies such as insurgents and terrorists. With a clear-headed history of our present dilemma and a workable strategy for reforming the structure and priorities of our military, intelligence-gathering, and foreign policies, his book brings critical insight—and practical solutions—to an issue that is already shaping our future.

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Terrorists and insurgents, not foreign governments, now pose the greatest threat to America—and how to fight and defeat such “non-state” enemies is the single most urgent and vexing question confronting our military today. This timely book has some answers. Drawing on decades of experience with counterinsurgency—as a scholar, a strategist, and a military officer—James S. Corum brings unique insight to the problems we face. His book offers a deeply informed, closely reasoned and—most valuably—eminently sensible account of how circumstances and our actions (or inaction) have contributed to our present dilemma. With the lessons of recent history in clear view, Corum lays out a workable strategy for meeting the often-overlapping threat raised by terrorist groups and insurgents.

Critical to understanding the nature of modern-day warfare, Fighting the War on Terror has broad implications for the future course of military, intelligence, and foreign policymaking. No one with an interest in the nation’s security can afford to overlook it.

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James S. Corum, PhD, is an associate professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in the Department of Joint and Multinational Operations at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was recently a visiting fellow at Oxford University’s All Souls College. While serving as a professor at the Air University, Corum developed and taught the course Terrorism and Small Wars. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Strategic Studies and Airpower Journal and the author of four books. A Lieutenant Colonel, Corum recently retired from the U.S. Army Reserve after six years of active duty and twenty-two years of reserve service, including duty in Iraq in 2004.