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Title: National Strategy for Combating Terrorism
September 2006

Author: United States

Release Date: June 21, 2009 [EBook #29186]

Language: English

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National Strategy for

Combating Terrorism

SEPTEMBER 2006

Table of Contents

Overview of America's National Strategy for Combating Terrorism
Today's Realities in the War on Terror
_Successes_
_Challenges_
Today's Terrorist Enemy
Strategic Vision for the War on Terror
Strategy for Winning the War on Terror
_Long-term approach: Advancing effective democracy_
_Over the short term: Four priorities of action_
Prevent attacks by terrorist networks
Deny WMD to rogue states and terrorist allies who seek to
use them
Deny terrorists the support and sanctuary of rogue states
Deny terrorists control of any nation they would use as a
base and launching pad for terror
Institutionalizing Our Strategy for Long-term Success
Conclusion

+Overview of America's National Strategy for Combating Terrorism+

America is at war with a transnational terrorist movement fueled by a
radical ideology of hatred, oppression, and murder. Our National
Strategy for Combating Terrorism, first published in February 2003,
recognizes that we are at war and that protecting and defending the
Homeland, the American people, and their livelihoods remains our first
and most solemn obligation.

Our strategy also recognizes that the War on Terror is a different kind
of war. From the beginning, it has been both a battle of arms and a
battle of ideas. Not only do we fight our terrorist enemies on the
battlefield, we promote freedom and human dignity as alternatives to
the terrorists' perverse vision of oppression and totalitarian rule.
The paradigm for combating terrorism now