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This book opens up new analytic ground for grappling with some of the most difficult and complex issues of our time. And it gives us pragmatic answers that can take us out of the spirals of current strategy. Westbrook avoids familiar tropes and gives us an original point of view. A great book that should be widely read.

Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University

Excellent.... Westbrook is refreshingly direct and realistic. He cuts through so much of the cant surrounding the global war on terror.

Andrew Bacevich, Professor of History and International Relations at Boston University and author of The Limits of Power

Highly readable, Deploying Ourselves builds a persuasive case for extending the classical political framework for the legitimate use of military force to the global polity, leading to sound advice for conducting the war against terrorists. It should be read by concerned citizens as well as responsible government officials.

Lt. General (USA, Ret.) Robert G. Gard, Jr., Ph.D.

This timely book by David Westbrook makes a powerful case for understanding the U.S. war against Muslim extremism as also and ultimately a political battle for Muslim hearts and minds. His unconventional but persuasive argument, inspired not by sympathy for Islam or the Muslim world but by a realistic rethinking of the arts of both war and statecraft in a global age, should prove a useful counterweight to current tendencies to short-circuit the cultural and diplomatic, not just military, tasks before us.

Frank Vogel, Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School

This thought-provoking book reflects on the need to re-examine security policy in an increasingly interdependent world, where threats to peace have taken new and ever more dangerous forms. As Westbrook points out, we cannot expect strategies designed for other times and other types of enemies to be optimal for addressing the conflicts that have arisen in our globalized age. Moving well beyond debates over hard and soft power, and disdaining partisan politics, he offers practical suggestions for a security policy that is smarter about politics in the classical sense of ordering our lives together. Deploying Ourselves is a timely, important work that deserves to be widely discussed.

Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University, and former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See

With the rhetorical power and texture of Tom Paines Common Sense , this gripping work of deep intellect, diagnostic acumen, and stunning turns of phrase leads to proposals of reform in the conduct of our foreign, military, and security/intelligence affairs that make radical common sense.

George E. Marcus, Chancellors Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Irvine, and Member of the American Anthropology Associations Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the U.S. Security and Intelligence Communities

DEPLOYING OURSELVES

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Deploying Ourselves

Islamist Violence and the Responsible Projection of U.S. Force

David A. Westbrook

First published 2011

by Paradigm Publishers

Published 2016

by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Westbrook, David A.
Deploying ourselves: Islamist violence and the responsible projection of U.S.
force / David A. Westbrook.
p. cm. (New world series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59451-743-3 (hc: alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-59451-744-0
(pbk: alk. paper)
1. United States Foreign relations21st century. 2. United States
Military policy. 3. National securityUnited States. 4. Intelligence service
United States. 5. Islamic fundamentalismGovernment policy United States.
6. Terrorism Government policy United States. I. Title.
JZ1480.W47 2011
327.1'170973dc22
2010033661

ISBN 13: 978-1-59451-744-0 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 978-1-59451-743-3 (hbk)

Nations, like individuals, are
punished for their transgressions.
ULYSSES S. GRANT

Contents

I have worked on this book for many years now and owe thanks to a few institutions and to many people. Even though a number of individuals contributed to this effort in more than one way, for the sake of clarity, these generous souls are thanked only once here.

Some of this book has been published before, and therefore copyright issues and simple provenance ought to be recognized. Although rewriting, revision, and so forth has been substantial, traces of earlier publication may remain. Insofar as this book replicates texts previously published elsewhere, republication is by permission, which is gratefully acknowledged.

In May of 2010, I gave a program of talks throughout Pakistan as part of the U.S. State Departments U.S. Speakers Program. My visit concerned possibilities for economic development, which in Pakistan are inextricably bound up with security issues. I learned a great deal from the foreign service officers and from the many Pakistanis that I had the opportunity to meet. I thank the State Department, and especially Barbara Durant in Washington, and the many foreign service officers and local employees of the State Department in Pakistan who made my visit possible.

Many of the ideas in this book were presented in two talks to security analysts at NATOs Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), outside Mons, Belgium, in November of 2006 and March of 2008. I also learned a great deal from the analysts there, and I thank them.

Parts of appeared first in Bin Ladens War, a long essay published by the Buffalo Law Review . A more policy-oriented version of these ideas, with more attention to the strategic consequences of the analysis, was published in Orbis .

Much of , Politics Is Now, was delivered as a talk, The Time of Faith: Contemporary Muslims, Secularists, and Anxieties over the Nature of History, at the conference Does Islam Need a Reformulation to be Compatible with the West? at Columbia University, March 29, 2006, sponsored by the Alliance Program (Columbia University; Ecole Polytechnique; Sciences Po; Universite Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne) and the Middle East Institute of Columbia Universitys School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

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