This book is about the triumphs of terror, how and why they happen and what the beaten governments could and should have done differently. It is a book about blunders and miscalculations, of the danger of underestimating a weak enemy and the hubris of empire.

Table of Contents

• 1 What is terrorism?
• 2 A brief history of terrorism
• 3 Terrorist strategy and tactics
• 4 What causes terrorism?
• 5 Inside the terrorist mind
• 6 Suicide terrorism
• 7 Super terrorism
• 8 Countering terrorism
• 9 The future
• 100 ideas
• Select bibliography