Know Thy Enemy: Profiles of Adversary Leaders and Their Strategic Cultures Trade paperback - 2003

Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: USAF Counterproliferation Center, July 2003. Trade Paperback. Second Edition. As New. Not a remainder. Not damaged. Not from a library. 331 pages. Profiles the personalities and strategic cultures of some of the United States' most dangerous international rivals. Contents: 1. Deterring international rivals from war and escalation / Barry R. Schneider; 2. Killing in the name of God: Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda / Jerrold M. Post; 3. The Muslim brotherhood and Islamic radicalism / Gary M. Servold; 4. Struggle for the control of Pakistan: Musharraf takes on the Islamist radicals / Stephen F. Burgess; 5. Kim Chong-il's erratic decision making and North Korea's strategic culture / Merrily Baird; 6. The crucible of radical Islam: Iran's leaders and strategic culture / Gregory F. Giles; 7. "Saddam is Iraq: Iraq is Saddam" / Jerrold M. Post and Amatzia Baram; 8. Syria under Bashar al-Asad: clinging to his roots? / Christopher Hemmer; 9. Muammar Qaddafi and Libya's strategic culture / Craig R. Black; 10. The need for influence theory and actor-specific behavioral models of adversaries / Alexander L. George; 11. Precise assessments of rivals vital in asymmetric war threat environment / Jerrold M. Post and Barry R. Schneider.