Terrorism

What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat by Prof Louise Richardson, Publishers: Random House/New York, 2006, USD 25.95

Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF

Professor Louise Richardson’s book “What Terrorists Want” is one of the primers on the study of terrorism. The book is organised in two parts— 1) The Terrorists, consists of five chapters and 2) The Counter terrorists which consists of remaining...

May 24, 2020

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Irish Republican Army, LTTE, PLO, Social life, Terrorism, Terrorism

In their Own Words-Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba by C. Christine Fair, Second Edition; By Christine Fair; India: Oxford University Press, 2019. 303pp. ISBN 10: 0-19-949521-1

Soumya Awasthi

The goal of every state is to survive. Many countries adopt various kinds of strategies to achieve their ends. The strategies are a mix of military, economic and diplomatic ways and means to realise their policy goals. However, in the case of...

May 20, 2020

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, C. Christine Fair, Lashkar, LeT, Understanding Lashkar, Terrorism

At the Center of The Storm- My Years at the CIA by George Tenet, Former Director CIA & The Great War of Our Time- the CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism- From al Qaida to ISIS by Michael Morell, Former Dy. Director CIA

Ajit Lal, Former Chairman, JIC

Book Review

These two books paint a contemporaneous picture of the CIA’s fight against Islamic terrorism. George Tenet was the Director, CIA from 1997 to 2004, having the unique distinction of serving two Presidents, Clinton and Bush. While Tenet was inducted...

September 12, 2016

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, CIA, Intelligence agencies, Islamic terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan’s security, Terrorism