Terrorism

Michael Scheuer: America and Islam After Iraq

Michael Scheuer
2008

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Michael Scheuer, a 20 year veteran of the CIA, who in the 1990's headed the search for Osama Bin Laden and the rendition program to imprison jihadists. Scheuer discusses the career of Osama bin Laden, the origins of the rendition program, and the failure of the US foreign policy elite to understand the challenges posed by jihadist terrorism.

KEYWORDS: CIA, Al Qaeda, Intelligence, Osama Bin Laden.

Michael A. Levi: Nuclear Terrorism

Michael A. Levi
2007

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Michael A. Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations for a discussion of nuclear terrorism. Levi analyzes the nature of the threat and offers a strategy for dealing with it.

KEYWORDS: Nuclear Weapons.

Max Boot: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the War on Terror

Max Boot
2006

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes military analyst Max Boot for a discussion of his new book, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History 1500 to Today. He offers his reflections on the Afghanistan War, the Iraq War and the 2006 Lebanon War in light of his historical analysis. He also evaluates the successes and failures of the Bush Administration.

KEYWORDS: Technology, Iraq, Nimitz Lecturers.

Lt.Col. John A. Nagl: Counterinsurgency

Lt.Col. John A. Nagl
2015

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Dr. John A. Nagl for a discussion of his life as a scholar/soldier in the U.S. military. After recalling the highlights of his career, Dr. Nagl, focusing on the problem of counterinsurgency, analyzes the army’s failings as a learning organization. He discusses the trajectory of military thinking after the Vietnam War and the long struggle to recognize the unconventional ways of warfare conducted by insurgents and terrorists. He describes how a group of innovators in the military came to draft the US Army/Marine Corp Counterinsurgency Field Manual...

Louise Richardson: What Terrorists Want

Louise Richardson
2007

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Louise Richardson, Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University for a discussion of how to understand terrorism and contain the threat

KEYWORDS: University Presidents

Louise Richardson: What Terrorists Want

Louise Richardson
2007

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Louise Richardson, Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University for a discussion of how to understand terrorism and contain the threat

KEYWORDS: University Presidents.

Lawrence Wright: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright
2006

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright for a discussion of his new book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Included in the conversation are profiles of Mohammed Qutb, Osama Bin Ladin, and Dr. Ayman al-Zawarhiri. key figures in the radical jihadist movement that became Al Qaeda. Wright also reflects on the career of FBI agent John O'Neill who led the FBI search for terrorists within the United States and was killed` in the destruction of the Twin Towers.

KEYWORDS: Pulitzer Prize, Al Qaeda.

Talal Asad: Thinking About Religion, Secularism and Politics

Talal Asad
2008

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Talal Asad who reflects on his life and work as an anthropologist focusing on religion, modernity, and the complex relationships between Islam and the West.

Key Words: Political Islam.

John Arquilla: International Relations in the Information Age

John Arquilla
2003

Professor John Arquilla discusses the information revolution and its implications for international politics.

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Arquilla/arquilla-con0.html

Key Words: Political Scientists, Terrorism, Networks, 911, Al Qaeda

Ian Lustick: Trapped in the War on Terror

Ian Lustick
2006

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes University of Pennsylvania political scientist Ian Lustick for a discussion of the War on Terror including its erroneous assumptions, its consequences for domestic politics, and its implications for Al Queda's long term strategy. He compares the Bush administration response to 911 to America's response to the Soviet threat during the Cold War.

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people6/Lustick/lustick06-con0.html

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