Fifteen Years after 9/11: A Preliminary Balance Sheet

Abstract

Fifteen years of U.S. efforts to destroy the jihadist terrorist enterprise have not led to victory in the classic military sense. Indeed, such victory may not be achievable in this kind of war. Instead, there have been both successes and failures in what will likely be an enduring task. Measuring progress in irregular warfare without front lines is always difficult. The diverse dimensions and multiple fronts of the continuing U.S. campaign against terrorists inspired by jihadist ideologies make doing so an exceptional challenge.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 21, 2016
Accession Number
AD1156417

Entities

People

  • Brian Michael Jenkins

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Corporations
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Intellectual Property
  • Middle East
  • Military Strategy
  • New York
  • Public Policy
  • Security
  • Societies
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • Violence
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design