Counterterrorism: Bridging Operations and Theory: A Terrorism Research Center Book

This book, Counterterrorism: Bridging Operations and Theory, is meant to help facilitate the gulf between those engaging in applied aspects of counterterrorism--essentially early warning, pre-emption response, mitigation, and consequence management--and those who are studying the underlying components of terrorism itself--e.g. how to define it, its causation, radicalization processes, group evolutionary patterns, and incident lessons learned--in order to better understand this phenomena for counterterrorism research purposes. Often such a diverse grouping of professionals and scholars are not found together in a project such as this because their paths do not normally cross.With over fifty contributors to this work--including internationally recognized scholars such as John Arquilla, Martin van Creveld, Brian M. Jenkins, Thomas X. Hammes, Rohan Gunaratna, David Kilcullen, David Ronfeldt, and Gregory Treverton--it will appeal to professionals in the areas of counterterrorism, homeland security, and security studies. Full listing of contributors: Dr. John Arquilla * Jeffrey "Skunk" Baxter * Matt Begert * Dr. Stefan Brem * Michael Brooks * Dr. Robert J. Bunker * Rick Y. Byrum * Lisa J. Campbell * Irina A. Chindea * Dr. Martin van Creveld * James P. Denney * Matthew G. Devost * T. Kessara Eldridge * Adam Elkus * Dr. Fadi Essmaeel * Dr. Christopher Flaherty * Phillip W. Fouts * Dr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross * Dr. Russell W. Glenn * Scott Gerwehr * Dr. Lester W. Grau * Thomas Greco * Dr. Daniel S. Gressang IV * Dr. Rohan Gunaratna * Dr. Thomas X. Hammes * Jennifer (Demmert) Hardwick * Daniel P. Heenan * Dr. Brian K. Houghton * Ali A. Jalali * Brian Michael Jenkins * Dr. Peter Katona * Hal Kempfer * Dr. David Kilcullen * James T. Kirkhope * Dr. Scott P. Layne * Ernest (Ernie) J. Lorelli * Dr. Prem Mahadevan * Paul M. Maniscalco * Kevin R. McCarthy * Jason Pate * William C. Patrick III * Ralph Peters * Dr. Raymond Picquet * Caitlin Poling * Byron Ramirez * John Robb * Dr. David Ronfeldt * Mitchell D. Silber * Dr. Joshua Sinai * Dr. Erroll G. Southers * Dr. John P. Sullivan * Michael Tanji * Dr. Gregory F. Treverton * Donald E. Vandergriff * G.I. Wilson