Articles on Tactics
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Armed Assault
Assaults with small arms including automatic weapons, grenades or hand held explosives is one of the basic tactics employed by terrorists. During the 1970s armed attacks were the most frequently ... -
Arms Supplies and Terrorism
Modern terrorism was forever transformed on Sept 11, 2001. On this day, the face of terrorism had acquired a new, indelible avatar – that of the caprine silhouette of al Qaeda’s Osama bin Laden. ... -
Arson / Fire Bombings as a Terrorist Tactic
The Second World War witnessed widespread use of the ‘firebomb’, incendiary devices versus explosive devices against identified targets. The device has existed in various forms and levels of ... -
Assassinations as a Terrorist Tactic
"Assassination has never changed the history of the world." - Benjamin Disraeli"A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy." - Guy FawkesThe two quotes above indicate the two very different ... -
Attacks on Soft Targets
On 12 October 2002 close to midnight, bombs ripped through two popular bars, Paddy’s and Sari Club, at Kuta Beach, and a third outside the United States Consulate in Depansar, Bali, Indonesia. The ... -
Biological / Chemical / Agricultural Terrorism
The terrorist use of biological weapons (BW)[1] has long been considered one of the most potentially threatening sub-state challenges confronting the international community. Pound for pound BW ... -
Cell Strategy and Terrorist Groups
Cell Strategy refers to the organizational technique of dividing terrorist organizations into small sub-units that usually interact in a larger network. Cells can be composed of anywhere ... -
Economic Terrorism and Extortion
Economic terrorism is assuming increasing salience given greater capacity of terrorist groups and non state actors across the globe to impose penalties on states as well as their citizens through ... -
Finance and Terrorism
Measures to combat the financing of terrorism have been a key element of the ‘war on terror’ since the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States. Many countries and international ... -
Gender and Terrorism (Female Suicide Missions)
Gender issues[i] are not among the most discussed in suicide terrorism studies[ii]; here, just as in all literature on security, “the experiences and roles of women have rarely been of ... -
Genocide as a Terrorist Tactic
The practice of genocide, or in simplest terms, the planned suppression of a particular demographic group within a nation’s borders, is neither unique to one country nor to one time period. ... -
Hijacking as a Terrorist Tactic
Hijacking is the armed, hostile take-over of any kind of transportation, including an airplane, a truck, a car, a boat, a train, or a bus. A hijacking usually involves hostage-taking, but this ... -
Hostage Taking and Barricade as a Terrorist Tactic
Despite the high-profile nature of the terrorist hostage taking events, especially the ones that involve mass seizures of hostages, at present they seem to be one of the understudied types of ... -
Interrogation Tactics and Effectiveness
Although a great deal of information is known about law enforcement interrogations, little data exists about interrogations conducted by the military or by counterterrorism agents and no ... -
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking as a Terrorist Tactic
The legal definition of kidnapping is the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to detain that person against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom (economic ... -
Maritime Terrorism
“Uranium could also lead to the construction of bombs. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the ... -
Narcoterrorism
The term “narcoterrorism” was coined in the early 1980’s when President Fernando Belaunde Terry of Peru gave a name to the attacks his police forces were facing from drug traffickers. (Hudson, ... -
Negotiations with Terrorist Groups
Negotiations with terrorist groups are a part of a holistic counter terrorism strategy used to encourage organizations to enter the political mainstream rather than turning to terrorism, and to ... -
New Terrorism and New Media : Mass-Mediated Terrorism
From its early days terror has combined psychological and theatrical aspects: the word “terror” comes from the Latin word “terrere” which means “to frighten” or “to scare”. During the “popular” ... -
Nuclear Terrorism
The invention of nuclear weapons, the ultimate among the three weapons of mass destruction, has given rise to completely novel conditions that have fundamentally affected the concept of war in ... -
Piracy and Terrorism
One of the defining features of 21st century terrorism is complexity. Maritime piracy is one element of a modern-day threat convergence that can also involve terrorism, illicit narcotics and ... -
Propaganda and Terrorism
Of all the posthumously published ideas the father of modern strategy left us, Carl von Clausewitz is best remembered for his immortal dictum: “war is the continuation of politics by other ... -
Psychology for Recruiting Terrorists
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. Jurgen Habermas, German PhilosopherAs terrorism has ... -
Recruitment Tactics
To replenish and expand their movements’ ranks, like other institutions in society, terrorist groups engage in the process of recruiting new members, which is the process of attracting, screening, ...
