Leadership Decapitation: Strategic Targeting of Terrorist Organizations

by Jenna Jordan

One 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--involving groups such as Hamas, al Qaeda, Shining Path, and ISIS--to identify the successes, failures, and unintended consequences of this strategy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503608247
• ISBN13: 9781503608245
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"