 | James R. Langford - 2003 - 188 pages
...United States of America is the world's greatest economic and military power, and it is well understood that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacks on the symbols of that power. Moreover, the attacks constituted a response to the oppressive manner in... | |
 | Ed Hotaling - 2003 - 236 pages
...Islam. Nor does the fact that they are a tiny minority hinder their ability to do so. It does not appear that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were really the opening shots in such a world war, but it certainly felt like it at the time. And the failure... | |
 | James G. Gimpel, J. Celeste Lay, Jason E. Schuknecht - 2003 - 336 pages
...11, 2001 (hereafter referred to as September 11). Social scientific inquiry is limited by the fact that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were so unexpected. It is not as if anyone could have constructed a rigorous pre- and postevent design to... | |
 | Graham Allison - 2004 - 280 pages
...national security community focused on what was called the question of the "second shoe." No one believed that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were an isolated occurrence. The next question had to be when, and where, the second shoe would drop and... | |
 | Richard N. Rosecrance, Arthur A. Stein - 2006 - 322 pages
...national security community focused on what was called the question of the 'second shoe.' No one believed that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were an isolated occurrence." 28 Perhaps such popular, if knee-jerk, expectations, predictions, and beliefs... | |
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American national security community focused on what was called the question of the "second shoe." No one believed that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were an isolated occurrence. 