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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- History -- What It Takes -- Individual Selection -- Delta Force Basic Training -- Seal Training -- Strike Training -- Hostage Rescue Training -- Target Surveillance -- Raids -- Hostage Rescue Missions -- Working with Local Forces -- Underwater Operations -- Small Arms -- Uniforms and Persional Equipment -- Surveillance and Communications -- Hostage Rescue Equipment -- Fort Battle in Mazar- 4- Sharif -- Recuing Prisoners -- Saving Captain Phillips -- Bin Laden Raid -- Glossary -- Further Information -- Index -- Back Cover.

This work provides a comprehensive overview of counterterrorism that examines key aspects of the fight against terrorism, including intelligence, law enforcement, the military, financial and criminal activity, ethics, and social media.

1. Pakistan's Militancy Challenge: From Where to What?. - Moeed Yusuf with contributions from Megan Neville, Ayesha Chugh, and Stephanie Flamenbaum. - 2. Militancy and Extremism in Pakistan: A US Perspective. - Marvin G. Weinbaum. - 3. Counterinsurgency: The Myth of Sisyphus?. - Ejaz Haider. - 4. Political Instability and Its Implications for an Effective National Counterterrorism Policy in Pakistan. - Savail Meekal Hussain and Mehreen Zahra-Malik. - 5. Counterterrorism Efforts of Law Enforcement Agencies in Pakistan. - Suhail Habib Tajik. - 6. Legal Challenges to Military Operations in Pakistan: The Case of the Federally and Provincially Administered Tribal Areas. - Ahmer Bilal Soofi. - 7. Choking Financing for Militants in Pakistan. - Muhammad Amir Rana. - 8. Cyberia: A New Warzone for Pakistan's Islamists. - Zafarullah Khan. - 9. Pakistan's Paradoxical Survival. - Anatol Lieven. - Conclusion. - Moeed Yusuf

"This book offers a multifaceted, analytical account of counterterrorism argumentative speech. Traditionally, existing scholarship in this field of research has taken a selective focus on issues and actors, concentrating mainly on US state discourse after 9/11. However, this approach ignores the fact that there was counterterrorism speech before 9/11, and that there are other countries and other actors who also actively engage in the counterterrorism discursive field, both within and outside of the Western world. Addressing several thematic, chronological and methodological gaps in the current literature, Arguing Counterterrorism offers a dynamic perspective on counterterrorism argumentative speech. Over the course of the volume, the authors tackle the following key issues: first, historical and cultural continuity and change. Second, the phenomenology of counterterrorism speech: its nature, instrumentalisation, implications and interactions between the various actors involved. The third theme is the anatomy of counterterrorism speech; namely its political, cultural and linguistic constitutive elements. Employing a multi-disciplinary framework, the authors explore these issues through a geographically and historically diverse range of case studies, resulting in a book that broadens the perspective of counterterrorism argumentation analysis. This book will be of much interest to students of critical terrorism studies, counterterrorism, discourse analysis, security studies and IR."

This volume contains chapters dealing with a variety of issues related to terrorism and counterterrorism and the study thereof, especially in relation to crime, criminal justice, law, and social control. The book gathers chapters involving a variety of issues and multiple theoretical approaches and methodological orientations. The topics include, amongst others, lone-wolf terrorism, the policing of terrorism, radicalization, suicide terrorism, torture, and counterterrorism policies. The themes of the book remain timely some 15 years after the events of September 11 2001 as evinced from the manifold continuing terrorism-related issues around the world today. This collection will be useful to students and scholars in sociology, criminology, law, political science, and public policy.

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Author -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Definitional Issues -- Chapter 2: Why Does Terrorism Matter? -- Chapter 3: A Multifaceted Problem -- Chapter 4: Overestimated Threat -- Chapter 5: Negative Consequences of Overreaction -- Chapter 6: Challenging Counterterrorism Policies -- Chapter 7: Toward a More Measured and Comprehensive Policy Response -- Conclusion -- List of Acronyms -- Back Cover.

Keeping ahead of terrorists requires innovative, up-to-date training. This follow-up to Stephen Sloan's pioneering 1981 book, Simulating Terrorism, takes stock of twenty-first-century terrorism--then equips readers to effectively counter it. Quickly canvassing the evolution of terrorism--and of counterterrorism efforts--over the past thirty years, co-authors Sloan and Robert J. Bunker draw on examples from the early 2000s, following the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, to emphasize the need to prevent or respond quickly to "active aggressors"--terrorists who announce their presence and seek credibility through killing.