Shipping list no.: 2012-0233-P.

"The papers that follow are the proceedings of the Marine Cors. University conference "Al-Qaida after Ten Years of War: A Global Perspective of Successes, Failures, and prospects"--P. v.

Includes bibliographical references.

Keynote address : the deep fight / Michael V. Hayden -- Al-Qaida's war with the United Nations and the state system / Christopher C. Harmon -- Al-Qaida's theater strategy : waging a world war / Norman Cigar -- East Africa and the Horn / David H. Shinn -- The state of al-Qaida in Southeast Asia ten years since 9/11 / Adam Dolnik -- Al-Qaida and terrorism in the Arab East : rise, decline, and the effects of doctrine revisions and the Arab revolutions / Amr Abdalla and Arezou Hassanzadeh -- Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb / Ricardo René Larémont -- Al-Qaida and Central Asia : a slowly developing and multipurpose presence / Michael F. Scheuer -- Power by proxy : al-Qaida in Pakistan / Haider Ali Hussein Mullick -- Toward a differential analysis of al-Qaida and the jihadist terrorist threat to Western European nations / Fernando Reinares -- Al-Qaida and the United States : a panel presentation / Peter Bergen.

Since the September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the United States has been at war with al-Qaida. Over the past 10 years, counterterrorism efforts have disrupted its main training facilities and eliminated much of the core leadership structure, including the mastermind Usama Bin Ladin. Despite this, al-Qaida has proved resilient. While the core leadership has been compromised, regional al-Qaida offshoots and affiliated Islamist terrorist groups have formed, developed, and become prominent in their own right. To aid in examining and explaining al-Qaida's trajectory, the Minerva Initiative at Marine Corps University hosted a conference in the spring of 2011, just days before Bin Ladin's demise. The panels at this conference addressed diverse issues such as al-Qaida's overarching strategy; the degree of control that central al-Qaida leadership maintains over regional franchises; and the strategies, tactics, successes, and failures in each theater of operation. The resulting papers contribute to the ongoing and ever-evolving net assessment of al-Qaida and its future prospects, and they help inform the crafting of a war termination phase with al-Qaida.