In this short book (144 pages of text and 84 pages of appendices), the author’s objective is to propose a framework for understanding global jihadism and formulate a “winnable” strategy to defeat it. This is a noble ambition, but the author spends too much time at the book’s beginning to compare the Western world’s war against global jihad with its Cold War’s counter-Communism campaign – when Soviet-style (post-Stalinist) Communism bore little resemblance to the religiously fundamentalist jihadists, even devoting (as a ‘space filler,’ one might presume) 74 pages in the appendix to reproducing George Kennan’s historic “Long Telegram on the Soviet Threat to America”. After a cursory overview of the origins of jihadism’s ideologues (e.g., Abdullah Azzam, Sayyid Qutb, Ayman al-Zawahiri, etc.), the readers’ expectations of a new “winnable” strategy to defeat global jihad are quickly disappointed. What is the author’s strategy to defeat the “totalitarian” global jihadism, which he terms “a direct existential threat to America and the whole of Western civilization”? (p. 120). They must be attacked on three fronts: first, “Deploy the truth: you cannot win a war if you cannot talk honestly about the enemy”; second, “Take a step back: help others fight their own wars”; and third, “Winning the war at home: education and human intelligence.” (pp. 129-133). A pretty weak strategy, considering what other military strategists are proposing and the U.S. military and intelligence agencies are already doing in Syria and Iraq and the FBI is doing domestically. The author is Vice President and Professor of Strategy and Irregular Warfare at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC.