A meticulous and detailed book, Jacob Shapiro's text is at its core a cry for a greater and more nuanced understanding of individual terrorist organisations. Through close analysis of primary and secondary texts, Shapiro delves into the bureaucratic guts of terrorist organisations to pry out where fissures lie that can be exploited by security and intelligence agencies. The conclusions he draws are not in themselves necessarily new, but the fact that they are bolstered by solid research and data hammers the conclusions home persuasively.
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