Book Reviews
Abstract
Know your enemy is as foundational a military maxim as there is, yet it canbe surprisingly difficult to get military and policy communities to focus on thenature of the adversary with meaningful depth or breadth. This is particularlyconcerning when the conflict at hand is something of the nature of the war onterror (WOT), where there is a fundamental shift not just in the context ofthe war but also in the nature of the adversary. Part, although certainly not all,of that problem is that military and government professionals face significanttime constraints, which make the research and reading that academics take forgranted difficult to do, no matter how much awareness there is of the need.With this in mind, one can only praise RAND: Project Air Force for the publicationof the two-book set Beyond al-Qaeda. For while Beyond al-Qaeda providesa limited discussion of future WOT strategy, operations, or implications, whatit does very well is provide a comprehensive, virtually encyclopedic assessmentof the current and potential adversaries associated with the WOT in the wake ofUS operations in Afghanistan.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2007
- Accession Number
- AD1124977
Entities
People
- Douglas Peifer
- Gilles Van Nederveen
- Lewis Griffith
- Thomas N. Williams
Organizations
- Air University