The Longest War (87 page)

David Loyn,
In Afghanistan: Two Hundred Years of British, Russian and American Occupation
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Marc Lynch,
Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2006).

William Maley,
Rescuing Afghanistan: Briefings
(Sydney: UNSW Press, 2007).

James Mann,
The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet
(New York: Penguin, 2004).

Abu Walid al-Masri,
The History of the Arab Afghans from the Time of their Arrival in Afghanistan until their Departure with the Taliban
. Serialized in
Al Sharq al Awsat
, December 8–14, 2004.

Jane Mayer,
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
(New York: Doubleday, 2008).

Scott McClellan,
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception
(New York: Perseus Books, 2008).

Terry McDermott,
Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It
(New York: HarperCollins, 2005).

Hugh Miles,
Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel That is Challenging the West
(London: Abacus, 2005).

Assaf Moghadam,
Globalization of Martyrdom: Al-Qaeda, Salafi Jihad, and the Diffusion of Suicide Attacks
(Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

Vahid Mojdeh,
Afghanistan under Five Years of Taliban Sovereignty
, translated by Sepideh Khalili and Saeed Gangi (Kabul, 2001).

John Mueller,
Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats and Why We Believe Them
(New York: Free Press, 2006).

Basil Muhammed,
Al Ansar Al Arab fi Afghanistan
(The Arab Volunteers in Afghanistan). The Committee for Islamic Benevolence Publications, 1991.

Craig M. Mullaney,
The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education
(New York: The Penguin Press, 2009).

Pervez Musharraf,
In the Line of Fire: A Memoir
(New York: Free Press, 2006).

Richard Myers,
Eyes on the Horizon: Serving on the Front Lines of National Security
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009).

Laurie Mylroie,
Bush vs. The Beltway: The Inside Battle over War in Iraq
(New York: Regan Books, 2003).

Laurie Mylroie,
Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein’s Unfinished War with America
(Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 2001).

Laurie Mylroie,
War Against America: Saddam Hussein And The World Trade Center Attacks
(New York: Regan Books, 2001).

Malcolm W. Nance,
The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency
(BookSurge Publishing, 2007).

Loretta Napoleoni,
Insurgent Iraq: Al Zarqawi and the New Generation
(New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005).

Omar Nasiri,
Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al-Qaeda
(New York: Basic Books, 2006).

Vali Nasr,
The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future
(New York: Norton, 2007).

Sean Naylor,
Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda
(New York: Berkeley Publishing Group, 2005).

George Packer,
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005).

Robert Pape,
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
(New York: Random House, 2005).

Alison Pargeter,
The New Frontiers of Jihad: Radical Islam in Europe
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).

Mariane Pearl,
A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl
(New York: Scribner, 2004).

David Petraeus et al.,
The U.S. Army Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).

Kenneth M. Pollack,
A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East
(New York: Random House, 2008).

Syed Qutb,
Milestones
(Mumbai: Bilal Books, 1998 edition).

Ahmed Rashid,
Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
(New York: Viking Adult, 2008).

Ahmed Rashid,
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil & Fundamentalism in Central Asia
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).

Milan Ray,
7-7: The London Bombings, Islam, and the Iraq War
(London: Pluto Press, 2006).

Maria A. Ressa,
Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda’s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia
(New York: Free Press, 2003).

Louise Richardson,
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat
(New York: Random House 2007).

Thomas E. Ricks,
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
(New York: Penguin Press, 2006).

Thomas Ricks,
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006–2008
(New York: Penguin Group, 2009).

James Risen,
State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
(New York: Free Press, 2006).

Linda Robinson,
Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq
(New York: Perseus Books, 2008).

Malise Ruthven,
A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America
(New York: Granta Books, 2002).

Malise Ruthven,
Islam in the World
(London: Oxford University Press, 1983).

Marc Sageman,
Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).

Marc Sageman,
Understanding Terror Networks
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).

Ricardo S. Sanchez and Donald T. Phillips,
Wiser in Battle: A Soldier’s Story
(New York: HarperCollins, 2008).

David E. Sanger,
The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
(New York: Harmony, 2009).

Gary Schroen,
First In: An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
(New York: Presidio Press, 2005).

Neil Sheehan,
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
(New York: Random House, 1988).

Michael Sheehan,
Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism without Terrorizing Ourselves
(New York: Random House, 2006).

Philip Shenon,
The Commission: the Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation
(New York: Hachette Book Group, 2008).

Jennifer Sims and Burton Gerber (eds.),
Transforming U.S. Intelligence
(Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005).

Clive Stafford Smith.
Eight O’clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantánamo Bay
(New York: Nation Books, 2007).

Anne Stenersen,
Al-Qaida’s Quest for Weapons of Mass Destruction: The History Behind the Hype
(Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag, 2009).

Hew Strachan,
Carl von Clausewitz’s On War: A Biography
(London: Atlantic Books, 2007).

Abu Musab al-Suri,
The Call for Global Islamic Resistance
, published on jihadist websites, 2004.

Ron Suskind,
The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of its Enemies since 9/11
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007).

Dina Temple-Raston,
The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror
(New York: PublicAffairs, 2007).

George Tenet,
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
(New York: Harper Collins, 2007).

Kenneth R. Timmerman,
Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender
(New York: Crown Forum, 2007).

Mark Urban,
War In Afghanistan
(London: Macmillan, 1988).

Ibrahim Warde,
The Price of Fear: The Truth behind the Financial War on Terror
(Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007).

W. Montgomery Watt,
Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1974).

Gabriel Weimann,
Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges
(Washington, D.C.: USIP Press, 2006).

Andrew Welsh-Huggins,
Material Support: A Midwest Al-Qaida Case and the U.S. War on Homegrown Terror
(Ohio University Press, forthcoming).

Bing West,
The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq
(New York: Random House, 2008).

Paul Williams,
Osama’s Revenge: The Next 9/11: What the Media and the Government Haven’t Told You
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004).

Roberta Wohlstetter,
Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003).

Bob Woodward,
Bush At War
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003).

Bob Woodward,
Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004).

Bob Woodward,
The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006–2008
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008).

Andy Worthington,
The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison
(Ann Arbor: Pluto 2007).

Lawrence Wright,
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
(New York: Vintage, 2007).

David Wurmser,
Tyranny’s Ally: America’s Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein
(Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1999).

Mohammad Yousaf and Mark Adkin,
The Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower
(London: Leo Cooper, 1992).

Rahimullah Yusufzai,
Most Wanted: Profiles of Terror
(New Delhi: Lotus/Roli, 2002).

Abdul Salam Zaeef,
My Life with the Taliban
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).

Mariam Abou Zahab and Olivier Roy,
Islamist Networks: The Afghan-Pakistan Connection
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2004).

Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet
, excerpts published by
Al Sharq al Awsat
, December 2001.

Montasser al-Zayyat.
The Road to al-Qaeda: The Story of Bin Laden’s Right Hand Man
(Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2004).

Amy Zegart,
Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI and the Origins of 9/11
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).

United States. House of Representatives. International Relations Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
Prepared Testimony of Andrew Kohut
,
How the United States is Perceived in the Arab and Muslim Worlds
. November 10, 2005.

United States. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence.
Prewar Intelligence Assessments About Postwar Iraq
. 110th Congress, 1st session.
http://intelligence.senate.gov/prewar.pdf
.

United States. Senate.
Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on Postwar findings about Iraq’s WMD programs and links to terrorism and how they compare with prewar assessments
. September 8, 2006.
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2006_rpt/srpt109-331.pdf

United States. House of Representatives. Foreign Affairs Committee.
Prepared testimony of Peter Bergen
. February 15, 2007.

United States. House of Representatives. Foreign Affairs Committee. Hearing on
Extraordinary Rendition in U.S. Counterterrorism Policy: The Impact on Transatlantic Relations
. April 17, 2007.

United States. Senate. Committee on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Hearing on Prison Radicalization: are terrorist cells forming in U.S. cell blocks?
109th Congress, 2nd session.

United States. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee.
Prepared testimony of James Dobbins: Ending Afghanistan’s Civil War
. March 8, 2007.

U.S. Congress. House of Representatives and Senate.
Authorization of the use of Military Force
. 107th Congress, 1st session. S.J. Res. 23. Washington, GPO: 2001.

U.S. Congress. Senate.
Tora Bora Revisited: How We Failed to Get Bin Laden and Why It Matters Today
. 111th Congress, 1st session. S. Prt. 110. Washington, GPO: 2009.

U.S. Congress. House of Representatives and Senate.
Joint hearing of the United States House of Representatives Select Intelligence Committee and the United States Senate Select Intelligence Committee.
Washington, D.C., September 26, 2002.

U.S. Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Testimony of Abdirahman Mukhtar
. March 11, 2009.

U.S. Congress. House of Representatives. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Testimony of Robert Grenier
. April 9, 2008.

U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services.
Inquiry into the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody
. November 20, 2008.

U.S. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence.
Prepared Testimony of Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell.
February 5, 2008.

U.S. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence.
Whether public statements regarding Iraq by U.S. government officials were substantiated by intelligence information
. 110th Congress, 2nd session. June 2008.

U.S. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence.
Postwar findings about Iraq’s WMD programs and links to terrorism and how they compare with prewar assessments
. September 8, 2006.

U.S. Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee.
Hearing on the subject of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction programs
. Washington, D.C., January 28, 2004.