The Rise of Militant Islam (4 reviews)
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
Found in: Post World War Two Books
Afghanistan Books
Hardback
256 pages
ISBN: 9781844159451
Published: 12 May 2010
An Insider's View of the Failure to Curb Global Jihad
by Anthony Tucker-JonesImprint: Pen & Sword Military
Found in: Post World War Two Books
Afghanistan Books
Hardback
256 pages
ISBN: 9781844159451
Published: 12 May 2010
£19.99
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At the end of the Cold War the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction replaced the Soviet Union as the new enemy of world peace. The significance of militant Islam’s growing disgust with Western foreign policy and apparent indifference to the suffering of Muslims worldwide was missed until it was too late.
In ‘The Rise of Militant Islam’ Anthony Tucker-Jones examines from an insider’s perspective how Western intelligence misinterpreted every landmark event on the road to 9/11 and ultimately failed to curb global jihad.
The author, who served in the Defence Intelligence Staff, the British Ministry of Defence’s top intelligence assessment organisation, gained an unparalleled insider’s view of the growing war on terror and how the West’s intelligence agencies were wrong-footed at almost every turn.
He traces the rise of international terrorism and its networks throughout the Muslim world, in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Algeria, Chechnya, Somalia and across the Middle East and uncovers the connections between them. He shows how the key to the growth of Al-Quaeda as a global terrorist organisation was not only the emergence of Osama bin Laden, but also the growing understanding of asymmetrical warfare, which the CIA had taught anti-Soviet jihadists in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
In ‘The Rise of Militant Islam’ Anthony Tucker-Jones examines from an insider’s perspective how Western intelligence misinterpreted every landmark event on the road to 9/11 and ultimately failed to curb global jihad.
The author, who served in the Defence Intelligence Staff, the British Ministry of Defence’s top intelligence assessment organisation, gained an unparalleled insider’s view of the growing war on terror and how the West’s intelligence agencies were wrong-footed at almost every turn.
He traces the rise of international terrorism and its networks throughout the Muslim world, in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Algeria, Chechnya, Somalia and across the Middle East and uncovers the connections between them. He shows how the key to the growth of Al-Quaeda as a global terrorist organisation was not only the emergence of Osama bin Laden, but also the growing understanding of asymmetrical warfare, which the CIA had taught anti-Soviet jihadists in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
An excellent overview of global jihad by a regular contributor to MI. The author traces the history of recent events in Somalia, Yemen, Bosnia, Algeria, Chechnya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, explaining the network... [read full review]
Military Illustrated, November 2010
This is a highly detailed and thought provoking book which chronicles the Western powers campaigns against the threat of militant Islam.military history blogspot
‘Always highly interesting and well written …’Robert de la Poer, Editor, The Journal of International Security
‘This book explains very eloquently how the West ended up needlessly fighting a two front war at the beginning of the millennia and how we could have avoided it if only we had exercised greater... [read full review]Nick Harvey, MP, Liberal Democrat Minister of State for the Armed Forces
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