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245			_aThe foreign fighters problem, recent trends and case studies : _bselected essays / _cEdited by Michael P. Noonan _h[electronic resource]
260			_aPhiladelphia, PA : _bFPRI, _c2011
300			_a1 PDF-file (92 p.)
500			_a"April 2011".
500			_aOn the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines have confronted third-party national combatants. Known as “foreign fighters,” these individuals have gained deadly skills and connections that can be exported or exploited to devastating effect in other locations.Over the past two decades, the foreign fighters phenomenon has grown after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979—to the ethnically cleansed fields of the Balkans to Chechnya and beyond. But this is not a new problem. This report is the second volume of findings from an important series of FPRI conferences on the so-called foreign fighter problem. These conferences have brought together leading experts in the field to examine and discuss this phenomenon from different ideational and disciplinary perspectives. While the first volume dealt primarily with functional areas of the phenomenon, this edition focuses primarily on the case studies of al Qaeda franchises or allied affiliates in Somalia, the Maghreb, Yemen, and Afghanistan/Pakistan.
651			_aUSA _xarmed forces _xislam _xterrorism _zIraq _zAfghanistan _zSomalia _zYemen _zPakistan _vconference
653			_aforeign fighters
653			_amercenaries
653			_aprofessional soldiers
653			_aal-Qaeda
653			_aal-Shabaab
653			_acounterterrorism
700			_aNoonan, Michael P.
710			_aForeign Policy Research Institute, FPRI. _bProgram on National Security
852			_hCD129 G11_980
856			_uhttp://www.fpri.org/research/nationalsecurity/foreignfighters1009/
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