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Blind Spot : The Secret History of American Counterterrorism by Timothy Naftali (2005, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBasic Books

ISBN-100465092810

ISBN-139780465092819

eBay Product ID (ePID)44174955

Product Key Features

Book TitleBlind Spot : the Secret History of American Counterterrorism

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicIntelligence & Espionage, General

GenrePolitical Science, History

AuthorTimothy Naftali

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight24.3 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-003248

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal363.32/0973

Synopsis- The story of the first international antiterrorism effort under Franklin D. Roosevelt and why it collapsed five decades before the appearance of Osama bin Laden - The inside story of Richard Nixon's handling of the 1972 Munich Olympics tragedy--based on interviews and newly released Presidential tapes--including the CIA's relationship with the mastermind of the Munich massacre - Why Dick Cheney discouraged Gerald Ford from paying much attention to terrorism in the 1970s - An analysis of terrorism in Lebanon and the intelligence failures that resulted in Americans being taken hostage U.S., embassies being bombed, and American lives lost - The inside story of the Ronald Reagan's and George H. W. Bush's, "War on Terrorism" (1986-1992) and the reasons for its successes and failures - The inside story of the investigation of Pan Am 103 and why the U.S. government did not retaliate against Libya, despite evidence that it had planed the attack - Why the U.S. failed to address transnational terrorism even after the first World Trade Center bombing - The complete story of how Al Qaeda exploited the weaknesses in U.S. security - How the Presidential Election of 2000 helped in weakening America's defenses against terrorism, This damning history of America's counterterrorism efforts since World War II--including missed opportunities and lessons unlearned that led to 9/11--reveals why liberal democracies are ineffective at stopping terrorism., In this revelatory new account, national security historian Timothy Naftali relates the full back story of America's attempts to fight terrorism. On September 11, 2001, a long history of failures, missteps, and blind spots in our intelligence services came to a head, with tragic results.At the end of World War II, the OSS's "X-2" department had established a seamless system for countering the threats of die-hard Nazi terrorists. But those capabilities were soon forgotten, and it wasn't until 1968, when Palestinian groups began a series of highly publicized airplane hijackings, that the U.S. began to take counterterrorism seriously. Naftali narrates the game of "catch-up" that various administrations and the CIA played --with varying degrees of success--from the Munich Games hostage-taking to the raft of terrorist incidents in the mid-1980s through the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, and up to 9/11.In riveting detail, Naftali shows why holes in U.S. homeland security discovered by Vice President George H. W. Bush in 1986 were still a problem when his son became President, and why George W. Bush did little to fix them until it was too late. Naftali concludes that open, liberal democracies like the U.S. are incapable of effectively stopping terrorism. For anyone concerned about the future of America's security, this masterful history will be necessary--and eye-opening--reading., This damning history of America's counterterrorism efforts since World War II--including missed opportunities and lessons unlearned that led to 9/11--reveals why liberal democracies are ineffective at stopping terrorism

LC Classification NumberHV6432.N34 2005