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It may seem odd including two articles in this issue on special operations given Colin Gray’s scholastic contributions to and output on a range of weightier subjects discussed in this issue, including strategy, geopolitics, deterrence, missile defense, and strategic culture. While he will be best remembered for his contributions to these subjects specifically, and to the academic field of strategic studies more generally, Colin was very much interested in and wrote several works on the subject over his remarkable career. This article makes the claim that few subjects better illustrate who Colin was, intellectually and personally, than his contributions to the “field” of special operations. Whether the reader accepts that special operations comprise a field of study is a moot point. The fact remains Colin was very much interested in the subject and wrote on it at different points in his extraordinary career. To provide structure to this short retrospective this article categorizes Colin’s contributions to the study of special operations: as a pioneer, as a pilgrim, and, ultimately, as a pragmatist.
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079229
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2007.
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Dying to Win is one of the most important works on suicide terrorism. It purports to unravel the strategic, social, and individual logic that gives suicide terrorism its coercive value. The methodology that Pape uses to support his various assertions is problematic for three reasons. First, he defines his key terms in such a way as to artificially set suicide terrorism apart from other forms of political violence. Second, in a number of cases Pape selects data from single sources to support particular assertions when other sources of data, used together, could provide more rigorous and useful insights into the phenomenon of suicide bombing. Finally, Pape codes his data on suicide attacks according to a loose set of criteria which, if recoded, calls into question some of his broader conclusions about the strategic utility of suicide terrorism campaigns.
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072512
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London, Routledge, 2006.
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xvii, 230p.
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0415702127
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| 051387 | 356.1609045/KIR 051387 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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086585
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Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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370p.
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9780521700382
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| 054173 | 355.02/JOR 054173 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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