A Hard Day's Night? The United States and the Global War on Terrorism
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Johnson, Thomas H.
Russell, James A.
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2005
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This paper examines the jihadist threat and its implications for the global war on
terrorism (GWOT)—a threat noted for its commitment, determination, innovation,
and lethality. The United States is struggling to configure its instruments of national
power to address a threat that has thus far proven unresponsive to these national
instruments. The paper argues that the jihadist threat needs to be framed in the
context of fundamental changes in the dynamics of the international system. These
dynamics have left the United States struggling to conceptually bound and define the
jihadist threat in the new security environment. This paper offers explanations for
this struggle and concludes that if not successful in bounding and understanding the
threat that the United States may win battles in the GWOT, but it can never win the
wider war.
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The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01495930590952315
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National Security Affairs
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Comparative Strategy, 24:127–151, 2005
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.