DB #8

NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR COMBATING TERRORISM SEPTEMBER 2006

I. Overview of America’s National Strategy for Combating Terrorism

II. Today’s Realities in the War on Terror

· Successes

· Challenges

III. Today’s Terrorist Enemy

IV. Strategic Vision for the War on Terror

V. Strategy for Winning the War on Terror

· Long-term approach: Advancing effective democracy

· Over the short term: Four priorities of action

· Prevent attacks by terrorist networks

· Deny WMD to rogue states and terrorist allies who seek to use them

· Deny terrorists the support and sanctuary of rogue states

· Deny terrorists control of any nation they would use as a base and launching pad for terror

VI. Institutionalizing Our Strategy for Long-term Success

VII. Conclusion