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| title = What worries Hank Crumpton | date =3 June 2009}}</ref> | | title = What worries Hank Crumpton | date =3 June 2009}}</ref> | ||
[[David Kilcullen]] credits him with new understandings of terrorism, such as coining the term " | [[David Kilcullen]] credits him with new understandings of terrorism, such as coining the term "micro-actors with massive impact" for the autonomous group that perpetrated the [[2008 bombings of Madrid]].<ref name=Accident>{{citation | ||
| title = The Accidental | | title = The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One | ||
| author = David Kilcullen | | author = David Kilcullen | ||
| publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2009 | | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2009 | ||
| isbn = 9780195368345}}, p. 6</ref> | | isbn = 9780195368345}}, p. 6</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Revision as of 02:24, 21 February 2010
Henry "Hank" Crumpton is a U.S. counterterrorism specialist, long a covert operator in the Central Intelligence Agency, whose identity became known in 2005. He became the U.S. State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, with the rank of Ambassador. [1] Simply known as "Hank" when running covert operations in Afghanistan, [2] energy and climate change issues "keep him up at night" in 2009.[3]
David Kilcullen credits him with new understandings of terrorism, such as coining the term "micro-actors with massive impact" for the autonomous group that perpetrated the 2008 bombings of Madrid.[4]
References
- ↑ Robin Wright (12 September 2005), "In From the Cold and Able to Take the Heat", Washington Post
- ↑ Gary C. Schroen (2005), First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan, Ballentine, ISBN 0891418723
- ↑ Thomas Ricks (3 June 2009), "What worries Hank Crumpton", Foreign Policy
- ↑ David Kilcullen (2009), The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195368345, p. 6