War on Terror
High quality essays written by experts on the War on Terror are presented. Essays discuss the rationale for the war on terror, criticisms of the war, and the difficulty of ensuring that the war does not become a war against Islam. Significant events and turning points in the war are also provided.

History of the War on Terror
President Bush selected the term "war on terror" to characterize the U.S. conflict with Islamic extremists. He did so against the advice of his top aides who much preferred the phrase...
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Current State of the War on Terror
Critics have argued that U.S. actions in Iraq and Afghanistan have galvanized terrorist groups by more clearly defining the United States as their enemy, and have also inspired ire from...
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An Overview of the War on Terror
Like the "war on drugs" and the "war on poverty," the war on terror is considered an ideological war. However, unlike other ideological wars the war on terror is also an active...
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Editor's Choice
The War on Terror feeding frenzy.
Hill
The article reflects on the vast discrepancy between the terrorist threat facing America and the scale of the people's response.
Here is Rumsfeld's memo-- read it without the media's spin.
Fort Worth Business Press
No abstract available.
Truth is first casualty of war.
Business Insurance
Comments on the campaign strategies of the United States government against terrorism. Issues on the truthfulness of information propagated by the...
Support for the War on Terrorism.
Officer Review Magazine
The article presents a government resolution concerning the support for the War on Terrorism in the U.S.
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Paying for Terrorism Losses: A Cross-Country Comparison
CPCU eJournal
Examines how different countries subject to varying terrorist threats and acts have marshaled resources to pay for losses. Nature of terrorism...

Get the Terrorist Threat Right
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
Focuses on the warning issued against possible small-boat suicide attacks by terrorists due to vulnerability of the U.S. to entrance by sea. Planning...

On the Issue of Terrorism, or Two Sides of the Same Coin
Russian Politics & Law
Comments on issues related to terrorism. Diversity on the manifestations of terrorism; Motives of terrorism; Emergence of terrorist groups.

Devastated NYC Resilient Amid Grief
Aviation Week & Space Technology
Focuses on the devastation of the terrorist attack in New York, New York. Details on the planes crashes on the World Trade Center and Pentagon;...

Demands for a terrorist crackdown irk Greece
Christian Science Monitor
Discusses murders committed by the revolutionary organization November 17 in Greece, and the outlook for a campaign of families of its victims...

Who Are the Active Terrorists?
Middle East Quarterly
Lists foreign terrorist organizations operating out of the Middle East as of October 1999 published by the Congressional Research Service. Terrorist...

CNN's al Qaeda video coup
Electronic Media
Reports the tapes containing the terrorist training from Osama Bin Laden owned by CNN. Inclusion of an assassination plan; Ways of taking hostages;...

Straight Talk on Terrorism
Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine
Explores the changing characteristics of terrorism and terrorists. Approaches used by government officials in characterizing terrorism; Support...

Terrorism in the Name of God
World & I
Focuses on two major theological Arab terrorist groups, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which pose a serious challenge to the security interests...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Terrorism
Journal of Adult Development
The article discusses various topics addressed within the issue including one on terrorists and terrorism and another on how to manage and reduce...

Algeria's most radical armed group
Christian Science Monitor
Informs about the threatening given by the most dreaded militant outfit of Algeria to bomb key establishments and buildings in France, as reported on...

Terrorism 'More Lethal But Less Frequent'
Aviation Week & Space Technology
Assesses the patterns of global terrorism. Support of Iran on terrorist group; Indications on the use of Iran for Al Qaeda operations; Allegation on...

Rewrite the book on combating terrorism
Christian Science Monitor
Presents the view that the United States must rethink methods of preventing terrorism and bringing terrorists to justice.

Hamas Fund-Raisers Active in Canada According to FBI Report
Insight on the News
Reports on the findings of a report from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation that terrorist group Hamas has been operating and raising funds in...

20,000
New York Times Upfront
This article reports that 20,000 average number of names are added to the F.B.I.'s terrorist watch list every month.

FACING THE AXIS OF EVIL?
Middle East
Focuses on the Lebanese Hizbullah terrorist organization. Accusations at the sponsorship of Iran to terrorism by the U.S. State Department;...
War on Terror Articles A-Z
- 'War'--the handy roar for every chore
- 'WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?': NEW TAKES ON AN OLD QUERY
- A COLD WAR-STYLE CONFLICT
- A Just Cause, Not a Just War
- A Mission for Today's Generation
- A new world focus on Central Asian states
- A Safer World -- Thanks to President Bush
- A VERY OLD KIND OF WAR
- A War on Terror: Afghanistan and After
- ABSOLUTE THREAT
- Accentuate the positive
- Africa and the War on Terror
- Africa and the War on Terrorism
- After Afghanistan
- AMERICA'S CAPTIVES: Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
- America's Captives: Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
- America's Strategy in Southeast Asia: From the Cold War to the Terror War
- American Ally: Tony Blair and the War on Terror
- AN AUTUMN OF WAR (Book)
- An Obsession the World Doesn't Share
- ANTIDIPLOMACY: SPIES, TERROR, SPEED, AND WAR
- Are We Really at War?
- Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security - from World War II to the War on Terrorism
- Attack would breed terrorism, bishop says
- BIO TERRORISM
- Bipartistan Coulterism
- Book Review: America�s Captives: Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. By Paul J. Springer. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 2010. viii + 278 pp. US$34.95 hbk. ISBN 978 0 7006 1717 3
- BRAIN BUSTERS
- Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
- Budget for Global War on Terror Operations: Fiscal Years 2001-2007
- Can the War on Terrorism Be Won?
- CHAPTER 9: Counter-terrorism
- Choosing Our Enemy
- Cold War/War on Terror
- Communicative Skills Instructors Deserve Recognition
- Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror: Military Culture and Irregular War
- CROSSCURRENTS: THE NEW TERRORISM
- DEBATING THE WAR ON TERRORISM
- Democracy and America's War on Terror, by Robert L. Ivie
- Divine retribution
- Doing Their Own Things
- Don't oversell an 'idea war.'
- Drawing a Bead on Terrorism
- Editor's Introduction
- Editor's Page
- Ending the "War on Terror."
- European Editorialists Question Whether War On Terrorism Should Be Expanded to Iraq
- EVEN DICTATORSHIPS HAVE THEIR LIMITATIONS
- Exorcising Hobbes
- Flying Armed
- Future War, Right Now
- Get Your War On: The Definitive Account of the War on Terror, 2001-2008
- He Wrote the Book on Torture
- History Ignored
- How Blair got it utterly wrong
- How much the war on terrorism is costing financially
- How to Win a Cosmic War
- How To Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror
- HOW WARS ARE WON (Book)
- How Wars Are Won (Book)
- How Wars are Won. The Thirteen Rules of War From Ancient Greece to the War on Terror (Book)
- How Wars Are Won: The 13 Rules of War from Ancient Greece to the War on Terror
- HOW WARS ARE WON: The 13 Rules of War from Ancient Greece to the War on Terrorism (book)
- I don't know much, but this I do know
- Immigration Policy/The War on Terror
- IMPERIAL HUBRIS: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror (Book)
- IMPERIAL HUBRIS: WHY THE WEST IS LOSING THE WAR ON TERROR
- Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror
- Indefensible Internment
- It's a new day for US allies, too
- JEFFERSON'S WAR: America's First War on Terror 1801-1805
- Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror, 1801-1805 (Book)
- Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terrorism 1801-1805 (Book)
- Just War on Terror
- Just war: psychology and terrorism
- Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror
- Lessons from drug war: It takes time, allies
- LETTERS to the editor
- Managing Exposure in the New Age of Terrorism
- Media Wars: News at a Time of Terror (Book)
- Misunderstanding terrorism
- MOWW Homeland Security Committee: Project 4 Chapter Speakers Bureaus
- News IQ
- No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century (Book)
- Now you see it, now you don't
- Off the Press
- Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror (Book)
- Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
- On the Ethics of War and Terrorism
- On this day�
- One Night on Red Beach
- OPIC Will Offer Stand-Alone Terrorism Coverage For U.S. Businesses Overseas
- Order of Battle
- Our leaders must control the urge to act rashly
- Parody
- Patience and Persistence
- POKING THE HORNETS' NEST IS ILL-ADVISED
- PTs and the War on Terrorism
- Rallying 'round the flag
- REAL CONSERVATISM
- Redeeming History
- Reporting the War: Freedom of the Press from the American Revolution to the War on Terrorism
- Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, From the Great War to the War on Terror
- SACRED CAUSES: THE CLASH OF RELIGION AND POLITICS, FROM THE GREAT WAR TO THE WAR ON TERROR
- Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror
- Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
- SECURITY/AL QAEDA'S INTENT
- SECURITY/U.S. HUBRIS
- SELLING THE US TO MUSLIMS
- Shocked and Awed: A Dictionary of the War on Terror
- South of us we see a nation of true fortitude and clear purpose
- Special Operations and Strategy: From World War II to the War on Terrorism
- State Department Addresses Counterterrorism Efforts
- Terror on the Chesapeake (Book Review)
- Terrorism and the War Crisis
- TERRORISM, AFGHANISTAN, AND AMERICA'S NEW WAY OF WAR (Book)
- Terrorism, Afghanistan, and America's New Way of War (Book)
- Terrorism, Government, and Law: National Authority and Local Autonomy in the War on Terror
- Terrorism: Causes, Threats, Prospects
- Terrorism: The 21st-Century War
- Terrorized by 'War on Terror': How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America
- The battle begins at home
- THE COLLAPSE OF OBJECTIVITY: LOOKING AT RECENT BOOKS ABOUT TERRORISM
- The cosmic dilemma
- THE CRISIS OF ISLAM: HOLY WAR AND UNHOLY TERROR (Book)
- The Cross Still Stands
- THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: FOREWORD: TORTURE AND THE WAR ON TERROR
- The Expert (Book)
- The Financial War on Terrorism
- The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror
- The Global War on Terrorism A Regional Approach to Coordination
- The Handwriting on the Wall
- The Idea of Responsibility
- The Importance of Being Lucid
- The Journal of Lynton Charles
- The limits of terror
- The New Fall Lineup
- The Politics of Bad Feith
- The Politics of Comics
- The Professionalization of Military Terror in Brazil, 1945-1964
- The Real Price of War: How You Pay for the War on Terror (Book)
- THE REAL PRICE OF WAR: How You Pay for the War on Terror (Book)
- THE REAL WORLD WAR IV
- The Revolution in Terrorism
- The Roots of Terrorism
- The Terror Network (Book)
- The Terror Network: The Secret War of International Terrorism
- THE TERROR NETWORK: THE SECRET WAR OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
- The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution
- The War Against Iraq (Book)
- The War Against Terrorism (Book)
- THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM
- The War on Terror
- The War on Terrorism and the Terror of God (Book)
- The War on Terrorism and the Terror of God/ When Religion Becomes Evil (Book)
- The War on Terrorism in Central Asia and the Cause of Democratic Reform
- The War on Terrorism
- The War on Terrorism: Winning the Un-Winnable
- THE WORD
- Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (Book)
- TREASON: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
- Treaty actions
- Truth is first casualty of war
- U.S. Puts More Effort in War of Hearts, Minds
- Uncertain Trumpet
- UNHOLY WAR (Book)
- Unholy War (Book)
- Unholy Wars (Book)
- Untitled
- War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
- War and Indecision
- War could make the terrorist threat worse
- War of the worlds
- War on Terror Is a War for Democratic Ideals
- War on Terror, Phase Two
- Wartime and Family Time
- Was the Afghan conflict a just war?
- Wave of the Future
- We Must Win This New War
- What National Unity?
- WHAT THE WAR ON TERRORISM ISN'T ABOUT
- What's your definition of terrorism?
- Whose Divine Right?
- Whose War Is This?
- Winning the Real War on Terrorism
- Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism
- Winning the War of Words: Selling the War on Terror from Afghanistan to Iraq
- World steeped in fear, but Jesus says, �Be not afraid�





