Suicide warfare culture, the military, and the individual as a weapon /

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Main Author: Skaine, Rosemarie
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Theoretical analysis of suicide warfare
  • Defining suicide warfare
  • Suicide warfare in modern conflicts
  • Suicide and policies of war
  • Strategies of suicide warfare
  • Effects of suicide warfare
  • Case studies
  • Japan's kamikaze pilots
  • Hezbollah and Palestinian conflicts with Israel
  • Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers
  • Chechen separatists
  • Al Qaeda
  • Conclusion: Suicide as a weapon in war
  • Appendix: Documents
  • A. President George W. Bush, national security strategy, pre-emptive self defense, "The Bush Doctrine"
  • B. President Barack Obama acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2009, "Just War" - excerpt
  • Al Qaeda's seven stages plan
  • Chechen separatist note of demands to President Putin, August 30, 2004
  • E. The killing of Osama bin Laden
  • F. Osama bin Laden's Last Letter, Late May 2010, to Shaykh Mahmud ("Atiyya") - Excerpt.