AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. AEIOU2. The Most Powerful Pillar3. War Plans4. July Crisis5. Disaster on the Drina6. To Warsaw!7. Meeting the Steamroller8. Lemberg–Rawa Ruska9. From Defeat to Catastrophe10. AftermathsNotesBibliographyIndex
John R. Schindler is a strategist, military historian, and security consultant whose work focuses on strategy, intelligence, and terrorism. Previously he was an intelligence analyst with the National Security Agency and a professor at the U.S. Naval War College. He is the author of Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War and Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa’ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad and the coauthor of The Terrorist Perspectives Project: Strategic and Operational Views of Al-Qaida and Associated Movements.
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