Skirmishes at the Edge of Empire: The United States and International Terrorism

by David Tucker

Over the past 25 years, the United States government has developed, through trial and error, both an understanding of terrorism and the means to deal with it. Using information collected in interviews with key decisionmakers from the Nixon to the Clinton administrations, David Tucker draws both strategic and tactical lessons from the United States' encounters with various terrorist groups. These lessons can be usefully applied to future counterterrorism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275957624
• ISBN13: 9780275957629
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.5"