TY - BOOK AU - KUCERA Joshua TI - Realism required when assessing terror threat PY - 2006/// KW - UNITED STATES KW - COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY N2 - Argues that the United States is overestimating the importance and scale of the threat posed by Al-Qaeda and Islamic terrorism, and that by so doing the USA is not only getting the problem out of proportion but risks making costly strategic over-reactions ER -