Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror
The 2004 critique of the war on terror published as 'Anonymous'. Its author was identified in the press as CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who acknowledged the book.
- Original byline
- Anonymous
- Published
- 2004
- Form
- Treatises
- Authorship
- Revealed: Michael Scheuer
- Attribution source
- Wikipedia: List of anonymously published works
- Revealed
- 2004, identity reported in the press and subsequently acknowledged by the author
- Reason for anonymity
- Political risk
- Copyright
- In copyright
- Reference
- Wikipedia
The authorship story
Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror appeared in 2004 credited to Anonymous, a serving intelligence officer, and argued that American policy was strengthening the movement it meant to defeat. The anonymity was a condition of the author's CIA employment, and it was thin by design: within weeks the press identified Michael Scheuer, former head of the agency's bin Laden unit, and he acknowledged both this book and its predecessor after resigning that year. The case is a modern institutional anonymity, imposed by an employer and shed with the job.
Questions readers ask
Who wrote Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror?
Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror was published anonymously and is documented as the work of Michael Scheuer. The authorship became public in 2004 (identity reported in the press and subsequently acknowledged by the author). Source: Wikipedia: List of anonymously published works.
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When was Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror published?
Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror was published in 2004 without an author’s name.
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