Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves
by Michael A. Sheehan
List Price:
Our Price: $5.88
You Save: $19.07 (76%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $5.48 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Michael A. SheehanEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-06
ISBN: 0307382176
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Crown
Book Reviews of Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves
Book Review: What is his point?
Summary: 1 Stars
Having read the reviews, I will not read the book. I need to know what are the principles, what suggestions does he make, in order to make us safe. These should be summarized in one page. None of the reviewers discussed these points. Rational thinking is based upon thinking, logic, analysis with supporting evidence. See the new book on amazon: "Teaching and Helping Students Think and Do Better". Students do not know how to learn, and scholars do not know how to write.
Summary of Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves
Written by a man who is arguably the country's most authoritative voice on counterterrorism, Crush the Cell demolishes, with simple logic, the edifice of false "terror punditry" that has been laid, brick by brick, since 9/11. A veteran of special ops, international diplomacy, and bruising clashes with federal law enforcement agencies, Michael Sheehan delivers in this book a two-part message: First, that we've wasted-and are continuing to waste-billions of dollars on the wrong protective measures, and second, that knowing the bad guys' next move is paramount.Somewhere in America, Sheehan maintains, are a number of terrorist cells, their members' heads filled with schemes of mayhem and destruction. Motivated not, as some believe, by feelings of disenfranchisement, disdain for freedom, or economic envy but by a compelling ideological hatred, these individuals plot not just terror but paralyzing terror-the kind that can shut down a country.
Unwittingly aiding and abetting them are many (but not all) "terror experts" and members of the media who, for reasons that are partly self- serving, rate the bad guys' capabilities far higher than they are, playing into terrorists' hands with their hype. Spurred by the pundits' inflated assessments, legislation follows that drains billions from taxpayers' pockets and pours money into a bloated Washington bureaucracy championing needless programs.
Here, Sheehan shows why defensive fortresses don't work, but offensive operational intelligence does. He also peels back the mystery surrounding terrorist cells, portraying them as, typically, a group of bumblers searching for a charismatic leader who has what it takes to conduct a complex symphony of violence. Sharing time in the narrative spotlight are not just agents of al Qaeda, but also frighteningly destructive lone wolves, cults, and radical movements.
In his career, Sheehan has operated in the mountain jungles of Central America, the back alleys of Mogadishu, and the teeming streets of New York City-but he has also participated at the highest levels of policy making at the White House, the State Department, and the United Nations. It's his time protecting America's most populous city as its counterterrorism czar, however, that yields this book's most fascinating insights. As Sheehan reveals thwarted threats to New York's bridges, subways, and landmarks, and recounts extraordinary simulations staged to gauge terrorists' true abilities, we gain perhaps the clearest picture yet of what modern terror-fighting is all about.
General Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Progressive Ethics and Strategy
The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Loveby John Shelby Spong
HarperOne; Published: 2005-04-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $2.88
Price in other shops:
Changing the Powers That Be: How the Left Can Stop Losing and Winby G.William Domhoff
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; Published: 2003-04-25; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $2.00
Price in other shops:
The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthierby Richard G. Wilkinson
New Press; Published: 2005-01-30; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $35.75
The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevityby Michael Marmot
Times Books; Published: 2004-08-09; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $2.74
Price in other shops:
Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches (Walras-Pareto Lectures)by Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, Howard Rosenthal
The MIT Press; Published: 2006-06-23; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $18.95
Price in other shops:
Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America (Great Questions in Politics Series)by Morris P. Fiorina, Samuel J. Abrams, Jeremy C. Pope
Longman; Published: 2004-07-14; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.58
Price in other shops:
The Global Class War : How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win it Backby Jeff Faux
Wiley; Published: 2006-01-11; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $7.99
Price in other shops:
The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richerby Dean Baker
Lulu.com; Published: 2006-07-18; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.81
Price in other shops:
The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break Itby Stanley B. Greenberg
Thomas Dunne Books; Published: 2004-01-08; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $1.89
Price in other shops:
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Timeby Jeffrey D. Sachs
Penguin Press; Published: 2005-12-30; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $11.00
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disastersby Richard A. Clarke
Ecco; Published: 2008-06-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $8.75
Price in other shops:
Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agentby Fred Burton
Random House; Published: 2008-06-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.43
Price in other shops:
Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihadby Andrew C. McCarthy
Encounter Books; Published: 2008-04-14; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $8.00
Price in other shops:
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Centuryby Steve Coll
Penguin Press HC, The; Published: 2008-04-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.90
Price in other shops:
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Idealsby Jane Mayer
Doubleday; Published: 2008-07-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $11.50
Price in other shops:
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deceptionby Scott McClellan
PublicAffairs; Published: 2008-05-28; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $9.29
Price in other shops:
Terror and Consent : The Wars for the Twenty-First Centuryby Philip Bobbitt
Knopf; Published: 2008-04-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $19.95
Price in other shops:
Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Centuryby Marc Sageman
University of Pennsylvania Press; Published: 2008-01-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $15.59
Price in other shops:
Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraqby Michael Scheuer
Free Press; Published: 2008-02-12; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $8.07
Price in other shops:
The Post-American Worldby Fareed Zakaria
W. W. Norton; Published: 2008-05-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.60
Price in other shops: