1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910693222303321

Autore

Walker David M (David Michael), <1951->

Titolo

Defense management [[electronic resource] ] : key elements needed to successfully transform DOD business operations : testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate / / statement of David M. Walker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Government Accountability Office, , [2005]

Collana

Testimony ; ; GAO-05-629 T

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on May 9, 2005).

"For release ... April 28, 2005."

Paper version available from: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 441 G St., NW, Rm. LM, Washington, D.C. 20548.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970450003321

Autore

Israeli Raphael

Titolo

Islamikaze : manifestations of Islamic martyrology / / Raphael Israeli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, OR, : Frank Cass, 2003

ISBN

1-135-75902-2

0-7146-5491-4

0-203-50422-4

1-280-09550-4

1-135-75903-0

Descrizione fisica

494 p

Disciplina

297.7/2

Soggetti

Martyrdom - Islam

Terrorism - Religious aspects - Islam

Islamic fundamentalism

Islam and culture

Islam and politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [463]-470) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Sampling Muslim reactions to the New York and Washington horrors -- 2. Muslim terminology and world of discourse -- 3. Fida'l, Shahid and Islamikaze -- 4. The doctrine of Islamikaze -- 5. Friends and foes : interpretations and misinterpretations -- 6. Champions of Islamikaze : their admirers and (muted) detractors -- 7. Identifying the enemy : domestic and external -- 8. The Jews, Zionism and Israel : an evil unto itself -- 9. The western war against Islamikaze -- 10. Conclusions and prospects.

Sommario/riassunto

Raphael Israeli's overview of Islamic martyrology focuses upon the situation that has developed worldwide since the World Trade Centre was destroyed. His thesis is that a sea-change has occurred in international terrorism that supersedes all other perspectives.