IACSP Homeland Security Bookshelf V25N2 2019

By Dr. Joshua Sinai

After Combat:True War Stories from Iraq and AfghanistanMarian Eide and Michael Gibler

(Potomac Books/An Imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2018), 280 pages, $29.95 [Hardcover], ISBN: 978-1-6401-2023-5.

This is an important and revealing collection of personal accounts by some of the American soldiers, sailors, marines, and air force personnel who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the U.S.-led counterterrorism/counterinsurgency campaign against Taliban, al Qaida, and ISIS insurgents in those countries.

The Terrorism Lectures:A Comprehensive Collection for the Student of Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and National Security

James J.F. Forest, [3rd Edition] (Santa Ana, CA: Nortia Press, 2019) 442 pp., US $ $49.99, ISBN: 978-1-9405-0316-5.

This is the third edition of the author’s highly-acclaimed an textbook on terrorism and counterterrorism. The textbook is divided into five parts. Part I: Definitions, History, and Conceptual Frameworks (an overview of the history and nature of terrorism, including root causes); Part II, Terrorism’s facilitators (how terrorists are organized, fund their activities, and communicate); Part III: Terrorist Group Ideologies and Strategies (varieties of terrorist ideologies, such as left-wing, right-wing, and religious, including how they engage in decision-making); Part IV: Contemporary Challenges (how terrorists radicalize and recruit adherents and members, terrorism and we...