Cutting the Fuse by Robert A Pape
Almost every, week, suicide bombers attack. We know the danger - suicide attacks kill more people than all other forms of terrorism - and in response we have sacrificed the lives of soldiers and civilians, trillions of dollars, and America's reputation abroad in a futile quest for absolute security. But do we really understand what drives people to deliberately kill themselves on a mission to harm the innocent? "Cutting the Fuse" offers a wealth of new knowledge about the origins of suicide terrorism and strategies to stop it. Robert A. Pape, James K. Feldman, and the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism have examined every suicide terrorist attack worldwide from 1980 to 2009. Their work fundamentally changes how we understand the root causes of the most important terrorist campaigns today and reveals why the War on Terror has been ultimately counterproductive. Since 2004, the number of suicide attacks - whether within a country or transnational - has grown with shocking speed. Through a close analysis of suicide campaigns by Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Israel, Chechnya, and Sri Lanka, the authors provide powerful new evidence that, contrary to popular and dangerously mistaken belief, only a tiny minority of these attacks are motivated solely by religion. Instead, the root cause is foreign military occupation, which triggers secular and religious people alike to carry out suicide attacks. "Cutting the Fuse" calls for new, effective solutions that America and its allies can sustain for decades, relying less on ground troops in Muslim countries and more on off-shore, over-the-horizon military forces along with political and economic strategies to empower local communities to stop terrorists in their midst.
"Invaluable... Gives Americans an urgently needed basis for devising a strategy to defeat Osama bin Laden and other Islamist militants." - Michael Scheuer, author of Imperial Hubris "Provocative.... Pape wants to change the way you think about suicide bombings and explain why they are on the rise." - Henry Schuster, CNN "Enlightening.... Sheds interesting light on a phenomenon often mistakenly believed to be restricted to the Middle East." - Washington Post Book World"
Robert A. Pape is professor of political science at the University of Chicago and the author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism and Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War. James K. Feldman has taught decision analysis and economics at the Air Force Institute of Technology and defense policy analysis at the School of Advanced Airpower Studies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226645605 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226645606 |
| Titel | Cutting the Fuse |
| Autor | Robert A Pape |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | The University of Chicago Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2010-10-15 |
| Seitenanzahl | 356 |
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