Gorka - Defeating jihad : the winnable war

PRAISE FOR DEFEATING JIHAD

Concise, clear, and constructively combative, Dr. Gorkas book stands apart in its depth of understanding of Islamist terrorists and what their ultimate defeat demands of us. Above all, his defiance of political correctness makes this well-written, finely argued work of immediate practical value. The author has presented us with an inspiring defense not merely of intellectual integrityso lacking among todays intelligentsiabut of our civilization.

Ralph Peters, Fox News strategic analyst and author of Valley of the Shadow

Defeating Jihad follows the first rule of war: know yourself and know your enemy. For too long we have failed to properly understand threats like ISIS; to truly win, to steal the willingness away from the opposition and create a real sense of a victor and a vanquisheda clear winner and a loserrequires a sustained whole-of-government effort well beyond what we have been allowed to do in any conflict in which we have engaged in recent times. Strategic victory without sustainment is a recipe for defeat, and we may be on the path to defeat. We cannot win this war without the knowledge Dr. Gorka shares here in this book.

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, U.S. Army (Ret.), former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency

America is at war, an unconventional war against a new totalitarian enemy. Sebastian Gorka understands this kind of war and the mind of our new enemy. This book provides America with a strategy to destroy ISIS or any group that follows the ideology of global jihad.

Lt. Gen. Charles T. Cleveland, U.S. Army (Ret.), former Commanding General of U.S. Army Special Operations Command, home of the Green Berets

For years Dr. Gorka has been telling the truth about the existential danger of jihadism. The threat is real and it is here in America. With ISIS even more dangerous than Al Qaeda, it is time to listen to what this man has to say. Defeating Jihad must be the foundation of our next commander in chiefs plan to win this war.

Congressman Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), member of the House Armed Services Committee

Sebastian Gorkas trenchant new work, Defeating Jihad, employs a Cold War analogy to make blunt recommendations as to what is to be done about the existential threat of jihadism. Like George Kennans 1946 Long Telegram analysis to the Truman administration of how to confront predatory communism, the foundation of Seb Gorkas strategy to destroy the jihadists is containment. Containment, however, was not by itself sufficient to destroy the Soviets, and it wont roll back and erase Al Qaeda and its kindred of Cain. Seb Gorka reminds us that there are three fundamental tactics that will hasten the defeat of the jihadists. First, speak candidly of the enemy. These are predators who preach a homicidal interpretation of Islam. Second, accept that the U.S. cannot do the fighting. The U.S. can only help those who defend themselves. Finally, educating ourselves about the enemys point of view requires patience and resources, and gathering fresh intelligence on the enemy requires even more patience and money. Pay now or pay later. To continue Seb Gorkas historical analogy of the Cold War to defeat the Soviets, at present we are at about 1949. The Berlin Crisis is behind us, and we have learned little about the nature of the enemy or about ourselves in conflict.

John Batchelor, author and host of The John Batchelor Show

Dr. Sebastian Gorka is one of the worlds leading experts in asymmetric warfare. In Defeating Jihad you get a glimpse of why his opinion matters in councils of war and in academia. He combines the perceptive with the analytic, the piercing intellect with the grit of real-world experience.

Stephen K. Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart News

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CONTENTS

I do not come to the question of Americas role in the world unemotionally or in a simply clinical fashion. Like so many things in life, my attitude toward this issue and the current threat to America is shaped by history, the history of my family.

After the war between the Allies and the evil forces of Adolf Hitlers Nazi empire had devastated Budapest, the beautiful city of his birth, a teenager called Paul witnessed his liberated home being progressively taken over by the new totalitarian ideology of communism.

As he saw the stipulations of the Yalta conferencewhich was meant to shape the postwar worldflouted one by one, especially when it came to countries like his own being allowed to choose their own governments after the war, Paul decided to resist. As a fifteen-year-old boy he had fought with a submachine gun through the ruins of the Hungarian capital. But now, as a young man enrolled in university, his resistance to the new communist dictatorship would take an indirect and covert form.

Enrolled as an architectural student in the Technical University that still sits on the banks of the River Danube in the heart of Budapest, he decided that with hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops occupying Hungary and the political system rapidly becoming a one-party communist state, the best way to fight back would be by undermining Moscows plans for dominating his beloved homeland and the whole region.

In college Paul secretly organized a small circle of Christian students whom he could trust, students who not only shared his strong faith but were prepared to risk their lives in order to make their country free and independent once more. The group would use their mandatory college internships to get placements at strategically important state enterprises, at locations such as railheads and industrial planning bureaus, which were key to Moscows domination of the national economy of Hungary and the spread of the Kremlins power across what would soon become the Soviet bloc.

There the young men, pretending to help the Party solidify its grip on the nation and serve the spread of communism, would record convoy movements, the shipments of military supplies, and the measures taken to nationalize the key hubs of industry that the apparatchiks were making subservient to the Kremlin. They did so fully aware that if the Hungarian secret police or their masters in the KGB ever found out what they were doing, they would be arrested, interrogated, and most likely summarily executed.