Bin Laden's Legacy by Gartenstein-Ross, Daveed -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Contents Title Copyright Chapter 1: Bin Laden Is Dead; His Strategy Lives

The “Foiled Plots” Shifting Perceptions Al Qaeda’s Game Plan America’s Errors

Chapter 2: How to Beat a Superpower

Bin Laden in the Afghan-Soviet War Broadening the Fight Al Qaeda’s Birth Al Qaeda’s War against America America Turns Away

Chapter 3: September 11, 2001

9/11 and the U.S. Economy Know Your Enemy? High Hopes

Chapter 4: Our Politicized Fight against Terrorism

America’s Mayor The Republicans Capitalize The 2004 Election The Democrats Capitalize, Too The 2008 and 2010 Elections

Chapter 5: Our Inefficient Fight against Terrorism

The Misallocation of Resources The Explosive Growth of the National Security Apparatus The Use of Private Contractors Pork Barrel Politics Policing Inefficiencies TSA’s “Passenger Revolt”

Chapter 6: The Consequences of the Invasion of Iraq

The Afghanistan War The Iraq War as Strategy The Failed Justifications for the Iraq War Damaging the War Effort in Afghanistan Angering Allies, Aiding Iran Aiding Jihadi Recruitment The Human and Economic Costs

Chapter 7: One Step Forward

Iraq’s Descent into Chaos Changes in American Strategy The Awakening

Chapter 8: Two Steps Back

Al Qaeda’s Rebound Al Qaeda’s Internal Dynamics The Case of the Disappearing Somalis A Brief History of Islamism in Somalia The Ethiopian Invasion and Its Aftermath The Rise of al Shabaab A Broader Fight

Chapter 9: The War on Oil

Al Qaeda’s Decision to Attack the Oil Supply Terrorist Plots Oil as Strategy

Chapter 10: The Thousand Cuts

The Collapse Jihadi Reactions Jihadi Adaptations

Chapter 11: A Formidable Adversary

Al Qaeda’s Structure Al Qaeda’s Weaknesses Other War Zones America’s Diminished Capabilities

Chapter 12: How to Survive al Qaeda

Understand Al Qaeda’s Strategy Address the Politicization of Terrorism Reduce the Expense of National Security Build Resilience Avoid Campaigns Like the Libyan No-Fly Zone Address Our Oil Addiction Fighting Terrorism in an Age of Constrained Resources

Acknowledgments Index