Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War by Sebastian Gorka PDF

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America is at conflict. The struggle opposed to international jihad has fee 7,000 American lives and virtually $2 trillion, and but, such a lot americans don't realize what's at stake. the general public lacks wisdom and safeguard simply because presidents and their administrations missed the main uncomplicated strategic query: who's the enemy?
Presidents Bush and Obama either named the worldwide jihadi movement—a circulate with an rationale to damage the West—“violent extremism.” Their tidy time period was once an try and hold peace with the Muslim neighborhood. but if they did not thoroughly identify the enemy, they didn't totally comprehend Islamic extremism. This failure is why the U.S. has been in Afghanistan for 16 years with out result in sight.

But this battle is eminently winnable if we get rid of our ideological blinders, safely identify our enemy, and draw up a technique to defeat the tips that encourage terrorism. So says Dr. Sebastian Gorka, the most skilled and sought-after professionals on counterterrorism.

Dr. Gorka has been one of many intelligence community’s go-to specialists on counterterrorism considering Sept. 11. He’s been known as to short Congress and the Marine Corps and was once requested to investigate the Patriot’s Day Boston Marathon Bombing for the USA govt. Dr. Gorka’s record for the trial of Dzhokhar "Jahar" Tsarnaev was once largely circulated in counterterrorism circles and the media since it effectively painted an image, no longer of at the disguise of Rolling Stone, yet of a terrorist.

Dr. Gorka is revered via friends simply because he is aware our enemy isn't "terror" or "violent extremism." Our enemy is the worldwide jihadi stream, a latest totalitarian ideology rooted within the doctrines and martial background of Islam whose ambitions are to construct an empire, suppress “false Muslims,” and have interaction in guerilla struggle opposed to infidels.

Taking his cue from the previously top-secret analyses that formed the U.S. reaction to the communist chance, Dr. Gorka has produced a compelling profile of the jihadi movement—its brain and motivation—and a plan to defeat it.