Author:
Lambert Laurent A.,Elayah Moosa
Abstract
AbstractTwenty years after the terror attacks of 9/11/2001, the world witnessed the humiliating withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan under the ‘protection’ of the new rulers of Kabul, the Taliban. The introduction to this book sheds light on the background of two decades of ‘War on Terror’ (WoT), a loose umbrella term for many US armed conflicts abroad—some still ongoing—, and reviews major publications on the WoT. It then explains this book’s focus on what has happened in the region to explain why the US formidable mobilization of means and might has transformed into such a blatant geostrategic defeat. This is a particularly timely task as we are entering, we argue, the era of a post-American Middle East.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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