AEI is rereleasing some of its most prescient and groundbreaking works from its earliest thinkers and innovators. These books, part of a series called AEI Classics, are available for download as Adobe Acrobat PDFs.
The War against the Terror Masters is a riveting guide to the terrorist crisis. Michael A. Ledeen explains in startling detail why the United States was so unprepared for the September 11 catastrophe; the nature of the terror network we are fighting--including its state sponsors; the role of radical Islam; the enemy collaboration of some of our traditional Middle Eastern "allies"; and, most convincingly, what America must do to win the war.
An examination of the rise of the international terror networks, and the past and current efforts of our intelligence services to destroy the terror masters in the U.S. and overseas, Ledeen's book also visits countries in the Near East and describes the terrorist cancer cells in each. Revelations include: how the terror network survived the loss of its main sponsor, the Soviet Union; how the FBI learned from a KGB defector--twenty years before Osama bin Laden's murderous assault on September 11--of the existence of Arab terrorist sleeper networks inside the United States; and much more.
Michael Ledeen, having worked in the State Department, the Pentagon, and the National Security Council on international terrorism, is uniquely qualified to tell this story.
Michael A. Ledeen, a noted political analyst and expert on the Near East, is a resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at AEI. He is the author of Tocqueville on American Character and Machiavelli on Modern Leadership. A frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, he lives and works in Washington, D.C.
What lies ahead for Cuba after Castro? Mark Falcoff writes that an economically unviable and otherwise dysfunctional Cuba could in coming years pose an even bigger threat to the United States than in its communist heyday.
The promise of "healthy aging" offers significant opportunities for economic growth and development for Europe in the decades ahead--if governments and citizens are willing to grasp them.
