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Imagines the lives of individuals who are impacted by present-day wars, from a ridiculed newspaper editor and an overburdened nuclear engineer to a woman fighter pilot and a religiously impassioned novice reporter.

Collects David Rees's Internet comic "Get Your War On", which offers a critical exploration of the events following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and George W. Bush's War on Terror. Contains adult content.

While we have long known that the strategies of terrorism rely heavily on media coverage of attacks, this is a look at the role played by media in counterterrorism, and the ways that, in the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration manipulated coverage to maintain a climate of fear. Drawing on in-depth analysis of counterterrorism in the years after 9/11, including the issuance of terror alerts and the decision to invade Iraq, the authors present a compelling...

From Tora Bora to Abbottabad follows the inside story of America's 20 year search for Bin Laden. When Osama Bin Laden was killed by American Special Forces on 2 May 2011, it marked the end of the longest and most expensive manhunt in American history. The 9/11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon had brought Bin Laden to the world's attention, but the mission to hunt and kill the terrorist leader had begun long before. Told through interviews and...

In a 2002 speech, President George W. Bush said, "If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long." Bush has no psychic visionaries, but in the war on terrorism his administration has nonetheless adopted a sweeping new "preemptive" strategy, which turns on the ability to predict the future. At home and abroad, the administration has cut corners on fundamental commitments of the rule of law in the name of preventing future...

An expert on al-Qaeda draws on his unique first-hand interviews with Osama bin Laden, top-level jihadists, and Washington officials to offer insight into the war on terror from both sides.

Examines how the events of September 11 unified most Americans and analyzes how a small number of intellectuals, writers, members of the media, and academics questioned the U.S. response to the attacks and America's own culpability.

"[W]hat is al-Qaeda? Is it a disciplined, motivated, structured terrorist group led by a single criminal mastermind or something far more complex, diffuse and sinister? Bin Laden's aim to provoke conflict between militant Islam and the West appears closer to fulfilment than ever. But is al-Queda the catalyst for this conflict, or merely a symbol of it?" "Jason Burke shows how the threat from Islamic terrorism comes not from one man, nor even one group,...

Why, despite indisputably superior military might, have the US-led military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq been so fraught with setbacks? Does it make sense in today's security environment to use military force to achieve strategic objectives? How does the contemporary battlefield function? Addressing these questions, Simon Murden explores the contradictions inherent in attempting to combat global terrorist networks by intervening in complex,...