title: Confronting Al Qaeda: New Strategies to Combat Terrorism
author: Kevin M. McGrath
description: In this incisive and insightful book, Kevin McGrath performs a dual service. In addition to exposing the incoherence of Washington's efforts to deal with Al Qaeda before and after 9/11, he describes in admirable detail a realistic, affordable approach for getting U.S. policy back on track. Senior U.S. officials: take notes. --Andrew Bacevich, author of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War<br /><br />Kevin McGrath uniquely combines a host of on-scene experience with a reflected and detached academic analysis fo the broad issues. Extremely well written and thoughtfully nuanced, the book will be of use to policy analysts as well as to students, providing a useful review of the big issues and an nubmer of novel insights. --George H. Quester, Shapiro Professor, Elliot School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, author of Preemption, Prevention and Proliferation: The Threat and Use of Weapons in History
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  The 9/11 Commission Report
  
  
  [1\. “WE HAVE SOME
  PLANES”](The%209_11%20Commission%20Report_split_001.html#filepos24201)
  
  [2\. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW
  TERRORISM](The%209_11%20Commission%20Report_split_001.html#filepos163800)
  
  [3\. COUNTERTERRORISM
  EVOLVES](The%209_11%20Commission%20Report_split_002.html#filepos236622)
  
  [4\. RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL
  ASSAULTS](The%209_11%20Commission%20Report_split_002.html#filepos355848)
  
  [5\. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN
  HOMELAND](The%209_11%20Commission%20Report_split_003.html#filepos473995)
  
  [6\. FROM THREAT TO
  THREAT](The%209_11%20Commission%20Report_split_004.html#filepos564261)
  
  [7\. THE ATTACK
  LOOMS](The%209_11%20Commission%20Report_split_004.html#filepos699750)
  
  [8\. “THE SYSTEM WAS BLINKING
  RED”](The%209_11%20Commission%20Report_split_005.html#filepos820451)
  
  [9\. HEROISM AND
  HORROR](The%209_11%20Commission%20Report_split_005.html#filepos898658)
  
  [10\. WARTIME](The%209_11%20Commission%20Report_spl