Published earlier this year by USIP, Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom, should be put on the deployment reading list.
I'm usually a bit leery when approaching books that have been heavily publicized like this one - with its own website and a USIP "event" held early in July - but it is well worth cover price.
Fully sourced, illustrated with plenty of charts, graphs and network diagrams, along with useful appendices, I found the book to be perhaps the best unclass piece on the subject matter I've read to date.Table of Contents
Part I: Insurgents and Their Strategies
1. Nationalists and Baathists
2. The Jihadi Salafis
3. Suicide Terrorism in the Iraqi Insurgency
Part II: The Alchemy of Martyrdom: Ideology, Theology and Mythology of Suicide Terrorism
4. The Ideology and Theology of Martyrdom
5. Martyrdom Mythology in Iraq
Part III: Martyrs Without Borders: Transnational Networks and Volunteerism in Iraq
6. Arab Fighters in Iraq
7. European Muslims in Iraq
8. Implications for Theory and Policy
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