TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jordan,Jenna
TI  - Leadership decapitation: strategic targeting of terrorist organizations 
T2  - Studies in violence and terror
SN  - 9781503608245
AV  - HV6431 .J674 2019
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Prevention
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; A theory of organizational resilience -- Hypotheses on leadership decapitation -- Is leadership targeting effective? -- Hamas : bureaucracy, social services, and local support -- The Shining Path : the organization and support of a left-wing group -- Al-Qaeda : religious ideology and organizational resilience
N2  - One of the central pillars of US counterterrorism policy is that capturing or killing a terrorist group's leader is effective. Yet this pillar rests more on a foundation of faith than facts. In Leadership Decapitation, Jenna Jordan examines over a thousand instances of leadership targeting-involving groups such as Hamas, al-Quaeda, Shining Path, and ISIS-to identify the successes, failures, and unintended consequences of this strategy. As Jordan demonstrates, group infrastructure, ideology, and popular support all play a role in determining how and why leadership decapitation succeeds or fails. Taking heed of these conditions is essential to an effective countererrorism policy going forward.  - from book cover
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