Leadership Decapitation: Strategic Targeting of Terrorist Orga... MCF

Leadership Decapitation: Strategic Targeting of Terrorist Organizations\nby Jenna Jordan\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jenna Jordan\nTitle: Leadership Decapitation: Strategic Targeting of Terrorist Organizations\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Warfare and defence\nPublisher: Stanford University Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781503608245\nISBN-10: 1503608247\nRRP: \u00A340.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nOne of the central pillars of US counterterrorism policy is that capturing or killing a terrorist group's leader is effective. Yet this pillar rests more on a foundation of faith than facts. In Leadership Decapitation, Jenna Jordan examines over a thousand instances of leadership targeting\u2014involving groups such as Hamas, al Qaeda, Shining Path, and ISI.