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In the years following the 9/11 attacks, the United States waged a "conflict on terror" that wanted to beat Al Qaeda through brute push. Nonetheless it soon became clear that strategy was not working, and by 2005 the Pentagon commenced looking for a new way. In Counterstrike, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of the New York Times inform the storyplot of what sort of group of analysts within the armed forces, at spy agencies, and in police has created an innovative and effective new strategy to battle terrorism, unbeknownst to many Americans and in well-defined comparison to the cowboy slogans that characterized the U.S. government's open public posture. Adapting topics from classic Cold War deterrence theory, these strategists have broadened the field of struggle to be able to disrupt jihadist networks in a lot more creative ways. Schmitt and Shanker take listeners deep into this theatre of conflict, as ground soldiers, brains operatives, and top executive-branch representatives have worked jointly to redefine and limit the geography designed for Al Qaeda to use in. They also show how these new counterterrorism strategies, used under George W. Bush and broadened under Barack Obama, were successfully used in planning and carrying out the remarkable May 2011 raid in which Osama bin Laden was killed. Filled with startling revelations about how exactly our national security is being managed, Counterstrike changes the way Americans take into account the ongoing have a problem with violent radical extremism.
