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"Incorporating cultural intelligence into joint intelligence : cultural intelligence and ethnographic intelligence theory / by Alexei J.D. Gavriel -- The use of evolutionary theory in modeling culture and cultural conflict / by Marc W.D. Tyrrell -- Employing data fusion in cultural analysis and COIN in tribal social systems / by Steffen Merten -- Weapons of the not so weak in Afghanistan : Pashtun agrarian structure and tribal organization / by Thomas J. Barfield -- Religious figures, insurgency, and jihad in southern Afghanistan / by Thomas H. Johnson -- The Durand line : tribal politics and Pakistan-Afghanistan relations / by Feroz Hassan Khan -- The maneuver company in Afghanistan : establishing counterinsurgency priorities at the district level / by Michael R. Fenzel -- Developing an IO environmental assessment in Khost province, Afghanistan : information operations at Provincial Reconstruction Team Khost in 2008 / by Robert J. Bebber -- Implementing a balanced counterinsurgency strategy in northeast Afghanistan, May 2007-July 2008 / by Nathan R. Springer."

"Summary: [In this book, the author] tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers, after the initial shock of the September 11 attacks, led the nation to war. Extensive quotations from the secret deliberations of the National Security Council - and firsthand revelations of the private thoughts, concerns and fears of the president and his war cabinet - make [the book a] chronicle of a modern presidency in time of grave crisis. Based on interviews with more than a hundred sources and four hours of exclusive interviews with the president, [it] reveals Bush's sweeping, almost grandiose, vision for remaking the world. [It] includes a ... portrait of CIA director George Tenet, ready and eager for covert action against terrorists in Afghanistan and worldwide. It [also] follows a CIA paramilitary team leader on a covert mission inside Afghanistan to pay off assets and buy friends with millions in U.S. currency carried in giant suitcases.-Dust jacket"

"Perang yang terjadi di Afghanistan akibat dari serangan 11 September 2001 telah menginspirasi Hollywood untuk memproduksi film yang sering menceritakan dan menstereotip komunitas Muslim di Amerika. Representasi yang ditampilkan pun berubah dari waktu ke waktu. Sekarang, Hollywood tidak lagi sepenuhnya menggambarkan tokoh Muslim sebagai musuh dari dunia barat. Contohnya, film 12 Strong (2018) adalah salah satu film yang menceritakan perang Afghanistan. Film ini dipuji karena terlihat menampilkan representasi Muslim yang baik. Hal ini bisa dilihat dari bagaimana tokoh Muslim bersatu dengan tentara Amerika melawan teroris. Artikel ini akan melihat lebih jauh bagaimana tokoh Muslim direpresentasikan dalam film 12 Strong menggunakan konsep Orientalisme Edward Said. Temuan dalam artikel ini menunjukkan bahwa film ini menampilkan representasi yang bertolak belakang mengenai Muslim yang “baik” dan Muslim yang “buruk” dengan fokus utama yaitu Muslim pria. Karakterisasi Muslim yang “buruk” dikonstruksi dari gabungan sudut pandang Amerika dan Muslim Afghanistan, sedangkan karakterisasi Muslim yang “baik” dikonstruksi dari sudut pandang Amerika. Jadi, alih-alih memberikan representasi kritis Muslim dalam konteks Afghanistan, film ini mereproduksi narasi terpolarisasi yang mirip dengan film Hollywood sebelumnya.

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The war that took place in Afghanistan as a result of 9/11 event has inspired Hollywood to create many movies which often address and stereotype Muslim communities in the country. This representation, however, shifts from time to time. Nowadays, Hollywood no longer completely depicts Muslim characters as totally the opposite of the Western world. 12 Strong (2018), for example, is one of the Afghan war movies that is celebrated for presenting a seemingly positive Muslim representation. This is depicted in how the Muslim characters unite with the American characters in the film to fight terrorism. This essay seeks to further examine how Muslims are represented in 12 Strong by using Edward Said’s Orientalism –framework. Findings in this article demonstrate that the film produces a polarization of “good” Muslims and “bad” Muslims in which one is juxtaposed with the other and with an exclusive focus on Muslim men.  Furthermore, the characterization of the “bad” Muslims is constructed from a combination of the perspectives of the American characters and the Muslim Afghan characters, while the characterization of “good” Muslims in the film is constructed from the Americans’ point of view. Thus, instead of providing a critical representation of Muslims in an Afghan context, this film reproduces polarized narratives similar to previous Hollywood movies that depict Islam."

"Wacana tentang hubungan Islam dan Barat kembali hangat pasca peristiwa 11 September 2001. Topik mengenai Islam dan terorisme menjadi isu sensitif yang mewarnai berbagai pemberitaan dalam media massa. Beragam opini dan representasi tentang Islam dan teroris muncul dari berbagai macam media massa. Tidak bisa dipungkiri bahwa media mempunyai peranan besar dalam mengembangkan wacana tentang Islam dan terorisme tersebut. Tesis ini merupakan analisis tentang bagaimana Newsweek sebagai suatu media massa cetak mencitrakan Islam dalam pemberitaan yang disampaikan kepada masyarakat. Dari analisis tampak bahwa Newsweek secara komprehensif mencoba memahami wacana tentang Islam dan teroris dengan dukungan berbagai data, analisa, dan argumentasi para penulisnya. Hasilnya, Newsweek dengan jelas membedakan antara Islam secara umum dengan teroris yang beragama Islam. Akan tetapi jika dilihat dengan lebih kritis, tampak bahwa pemberitaan Newsweek cenderung mendukung dan atau senada dengan wacana yang dikembangkan pemerintah Amerika tentang Islam dan teroris.

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The issue of Moslem and Westerners has been getting popular after September 11, 2001. The topic about Islam and terrorism has become a negative issue in the news report and mass media. Much opinion and representation about Islam and terrorism appeared from all over mass media. It is obvious that media has big roles in developing the issue of Islam and terrorism. The thesis is written to analyze how Newsweek as a printed media describing Islam in their news. From the analysis, we can see that Newsweek tried to comprehend Islam and terrorism, supported by much data, analysis, and argumentation from the columnists. The result is Newsweek can clearly distinguish between Islam as a general and the radical terrorists. However, if we analyze critically, it could be seen that Newsweek tends to support the issue developed by US government about Islam and terrorists."

"Pelaksanaan Operation Iraqi Freedom di Irak tahun 2003 disebut-sebut sebagai momentum tercapainya suatu revolution in military affairs oleh militer Amerika Serikat. Penjatuhkan rezim Saddam Hussein dari kepemimpinannya di Irak berhasil dilakukan dengan tempo yang singkat dan korban jiwa serta biaya yang minim. Tujuh tahun sebelumnya, Departemen Pertahanan Amerika Serikat mempublikasikan dokumen Joint Vision 2010, yang berisi konsep-konsep operasional yang dirancang Amerika Serikat untuk dapat mencapai suatu bentuk dominasi menyeluruh dalam setiap pertempuran yang melibatkan militer Amerika Serikat. Konsep-konsep tersebut terbukti berhasil diimplementasikan secara efektif dalam pelaksanaan Operation Iraqi Freedom. Penelitian ini kemudian menganalisis faktor-faktor penyebab berhasilnya implementasi konsep-konsep tersebut dengan menggunakan metode penelitian kuantitaif-eksplanatif. Hasil penelitian ini menyatakan bahwa, keberhasilan implementasi konsep-konsep operasional tersebut disebabkan oleh faktor kapabilitas speed, precision, situational awareness dan jointness yang dimiliki oleh militer Amerika Serikat dalam pelaksanaan Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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In 2003, United States conduct a military operation in Iraq to topple the Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime and replace it with a stable democracy government. The major combat operations in the so-called "Operation Iraqi Freedom" which occurred from March 20, 2003 to April 9, 2003, is described to represent the achievement of a revolution in military affairs by the United States military. Seven years prior to the operation, the United States Department of Defense published "Joint Vision 2010", a conceptual template for how United States' Armed Forces will channel the capabilites to achieve a revolution in military affairs. The operational concepts which included in the document proofed to be implemented successfully seven years later in Operation Iraqi Freedom. This research try to analyze the major contributing factors to the implementations of Joint Vision 2010 in Operation Iraqi Freedom, which come to the conclusion that the implementation has been achieved succesfully because of four capabilites that United States' Armed Force possessed: speed, precision, situational awareness and jointness."