Defeating Terrorism: Shaping the New Security Environment: Readings and Interpretations presents original contributions by leading scholars and professionals in the terrorism field, written especially for this book. No other book currently on the market presents this cutting-edge thinking on ways to fight and win the war against terrorism. Chapters include: comprehensive strategies to combat terrorism; combating regional terrorist movements; countering weapons of mass destructions (WMD) threats; countering more recently developed terrorism tactics and weapons; military, intelligence, special operations, business and government responses to terrorism; and countering or removing the causes of terrorism.

BRIGADIER GENERAL (RETIRED) RUSSELL HOWARD is the former department head of the Department of Social Sciences. He is now the Director of the Jebsen Center for Counterterrorism Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University.

MAJOR REID SAWYER is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University and formerly the Director of Terrorism Studies at West Point and Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University where he teaches a graduate seminar on terrorism studies.