Blind spot : the secret history of American counterterrorism/ edited by Timothy Naftali
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Basic Books , 2006Description: xvii, 409 pISBN:- 0465092829 (pbk) :
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363.320973 LES Countering the new terrorism | 363.320973 LUS Trapped in the war on terror / | 363.320973 MAR Defeating terrorism: strategic issues analyses | 363.320973 NAF Blind spot : the secret history of American counterterrorism/ | 363.320973 NAT Making the nation safer: the role of science and technology in countering terrorism | 363.320973 PAR The terrorism trap: September 11 and beyond | 363.320973 PEN Winning the un-war : a new strategy for the war on terrorism/ |
Historical assessment of America's counterterrorism efforts. According to this book these were initially developed from British experience in policing the empire and first used during the latter stages of the Second World War to defeat Nazi Germany. It is suggested that early successes may have led to a false sense of security when it came to the possibility of attacks on the American homeland. Meanwhile U.S. government behaviour in response to the 9-11 attacks (abductions, internment without trial, as well as wholesale unauthorised spying on the American people) has been, to say the least, politically insensitive, and may cause lasting damage to American standing in the international arena.
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