Godfrey Garner, Maeghin Alarid-Hughes

Origins of Terrorism (eBook, ePUB)

The Rise of the World's Most Formidable Terrorist Groups

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Origins of Terrorism examines the roots and history of Islamic terrorism including foundational figures in various organizations such as al-Qaeda, ISIS, the Taliban, and Boko Haram. The book also addresses the use of terrorism, the "hows" and "whys" of terrorists' goals, and their modus operandi.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000383423
• Artikelnr.: 61320565

Autorenporträt

Dr. Godfrey Garner holds a PhD in counseling psychology from Mississippi State University. Following two tours in Viet Nam and a lengthy break in military service, Dr. Garner rejoined and eventually retired from 20th Special Forces group in 2006. He completed two military, and six civilian government-related tours in Afghanistan. His work in Afghanistan most recently has been as a counterinsurgency intelligence analyst. He is published in Homeland Security Today, Journal of American Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Journal on issues relating to Afghanistan. He is the author of the novels Danny Kane and the Hunt for Mullah Omar, Clothed in White Raiment, and The Balance of Exodus, coauthor of Intelligence Analysis Fundamentals, published by Taylor Francis CRC, as well as an upcoming memoir on Vietnam entitled Brothers in the Mekong Delta: A Memoir of PBR Section 513 in the Vietnam War. He is a permanent faculty professor at Mississippi College, as well as adjunct at Tulane University and Belhaven University, in Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.

Maeghin Alarid-Hughes holds an MA in International Security and Homeland Defense and a graduate certificate in Terrorism Analysis. She is an Adjunct Professor in: Terrorism and Risk Analysis for Arapahoe Community College out of Colorado. She is a subject matter expert and consultant in Counterterrorism for Guidepoint. She was the Project Coordinator for Project Arrowhead, a Department of Homeland Security-funded countering violent extremism project through Mississippi College. She was an Anti-Terrorism specialist and a consultant for a physical security company out of Texas, Specialized Risk, LLC. She was the lead policy analyst at the Institute for National Security Studies onsite at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, working arms control, nonproliferation and strategic stability issues for the Air Force. She has fifteen years of experience working for the Department of Defense, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and every branch of the military. She was a terrorism instructor at the Defense Nuclear Weapons School where she created the school's first course on Female Suicide Bombers. She was asked to present her research on Female Recruitment and Radicalization Online at the Women's Peace and Security Conference in 2015. Her research was published in the book, "Impunity: Countering Illicit Power in War and Transition" by the National Defense University. She is also a contributing author in the book "Online Terrorist Propaganda, Recruitment, and Radicalization", by CRC Press. She has worked in countering violent extremism and social media monitoring for the last nine years. She has worked with State, Federal, and Military first responders as well as international students and has traveled to various military bases throughout the United States instructing response to radiological terrorism.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Author biographies. Chapter 1: Insurgency, Religion and Terrorist
Relationships . Chapter 2: Terror Mind Manipulation. Chapter 3: Terrorist
Landscape: Laying a Foundation . Chapter 4: How bin Laden Rose to Fame: A
Historical Perspective. Chapter 5: A Closer Look at bin Laden. Chapter 6:
What about Russia? Chapter 7: Meeting Key Players: Mullah Omar and the
Taliban. Chapter 8: Osama bin Laden; Mullah Mohamad Omar; Their Focus
During this Period. Chapter 9: Abu Musab Zarqawi. Chapter 10: Birth of the
Islamic State. Chapter 11: Women within Terrorism: New Tactics and What Can
We Expect Next. Index.