Bibliography Category: Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency

U.S. Government Accountability Office. GAO-99-135, Combating Terrorism: Issues to be Resolved to Improve Counterterrorism Operations. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1999. http://www.gao.gov/archive/1999/ns99135b.pdf (accessed 19 October 2011). This report examines how agencies worked together in counterterrorist operations and special events; strengths and weaknesses of international and domestic counterterrorist exercises; and agency and interagency processes to capture […]

U.S. Government Accountability Office. GAO-99-16, Combating Terrorism: Observations on the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Domestic Preparedness Program. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/archive/1999/ns99016t.pdf (accessed 19 October 2011). This report discusses GAO’s work and observations on the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Domestic Preparedness Program and related issues. This interagency program, led by the Department of Defense (DoD) provides training and equipment […]

U.S. Government Accountability Office. GAO-99-3, Combating Terrorism: Opportunities to Improve Domestic Preparedness Program Focus and Efficiency. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/archive/1999/ns99003.pdf (accessed 19 October 2011). This report evaluates the training and other benefits offered to cities under the Domestic Preparedness Program and the methodology for designing and implementing the program.

U.S. Government Accountability Office. GAO-03-165, Combating Terrorism: Interagency Framework and Agency Programs to Address the Overseas Threat. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2003. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03165.pdf (accessed 12 August 2011). This report describes the interagency framework and policies for planning and coordinating federal efforts to counter international terrorism. The report provides baseline information identifying and describing federal […]

U.S. Government Accountability Office. GAO-02-610, Homeland Security: Key Elements to Unify Efforts Are Underway but Uncertainty Remains. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2002. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02610.pdf (accessed 19 October 2011). This report examines the extent to which homeland security efforts are unified. The report concludes that the homeland security efforts of public and private entities do not […]

U.S. Government Accountability Office. GAO-02-550T, Combating Terrorism: Intergovernmental Cooperation in the Development of a National Strategy to Enhance State and Local Preparedness. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2002. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02550t.pdf (accessed 9 September 2011). This testimony is a call for development of a national strategy that will improve national preparedness and enhance partnerships between federal, state, […]

U.S. Government Accountability Office. GAO-02-547T, Combating Terrorism: Intergovernmental Partnership in a National Strategy to Enhance State and Local Preparedness. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2002. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02547t.pdf (accessed 19 October 2011). This testimony calls for development of a national strategy that will improve national preparedness and enhance partnerships between federal, state and local governments to guard […]

Tussing, Bert B. and Kent Hughes Butts. Aligning the Interagency Process for the War on Terrorism. Issue Paper, Center for Strategic Leadership, United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA, 2005. http://www.csl.army.mil/usacsl/Publications/11-05-C2S2.pdf (accessed 12 October 2011). This paper is a review of a symposium that addressed the threat of transnational terrorism. The symposium included discussions […]

Stuebner, William A. and Richard Hirsch. 2010. Mindanao: A Community-based Approach to Counterinsurgency. Prism Vol. 1, no. 3 (June): 129-138. http://www.ndu.edu/press/mindanao.html (accessed 26 November 2012). This article examines successful counterinsurgency and stability operations in Mindanao in the southern Philippines.

Spencer, David K. 2009. Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Inc: A Model for Interagency Success. Military Review Vol. 89, no 4 (July/August): 34-40. http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/call/docs/11-22/ch_11.asp (accessed 9 November 2012). This article examines the Nangarhar Regional Development Plan as a model to emulate for future success in counterinsurgency efforts.