A Modest Suggestion

Abstract

On September 20th, President George W. Bush laid out to the country the objectives of our war on terrorism. The Taliban, rulers of Afghanistan, were given a simple choice between handing over the members and the apparatus of the Al Queda organization or facing destruction. The speech was simple, dramatic and forceful. It drew in stark terms the evil forces faced by the civilized world and placed any country that harbored terrorists into the category of "hostile nation." But President Bush set out conditions that have precipitated military action against Afghanistan and now the key is to prevent the war against terrorism from degenerating into a war against a small, poor, Islamic country. As planners consider the next step, careful consideration of an indirect approach to the problem of terrorism is necessary.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA441511

Entities

People

  • F. L. Campbell Iv

Organizations

  • National War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan
  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Casualties
  • Center Of Gravity
  • Information Operations
  • Middle East
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • War
  • War Colleges
  • Weapons
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Strategic Security Studies