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Appointment in Samarra: Western strategic thought and the culture of risk.
THE DANISH PHILOSOPHER Soren Kierkegaard once wrote that, while life must be lived forwards, it can only be understood backwards. Nowhere was this great truth more starkly illustrated than on September 11, 2001. On that day, the world's most advanced and powerful country, the United States, was temporarily paralysed by the most devastating attack in its history. A handful of Islamist extremists armed only with knives, possessed of a fringe ideology of millenarianism and embracing a medieval mystique of death, gave a new and terrible meaning to the concept of that antiseptic phrase, "asymmetric warfare"--the term du jour for the ancient art of unconventional conflict. Four ...
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