Articles on Targets
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Attacks on Aid Workers / NGO's / Contractors
Photo: 2011 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that as allied air strikes began on Libya, it was calling on all warring parties to spare civilians and respect ... -
Attacks on Electrical Grids
Electrical grids or electric power systems are part of critical infrastructure which are comprised of physical systems that connect components of a nation’s electricity supply, thereby directly ... -
Attacks on Infrastructure
Critical infrastructures broadly refer to a nation's physical and virtual private and public interconnected systems that are essential to national security, national economic security and/or ... -
Attacks on Oil Distribution
Photo: 2006 Port Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria. Movement for the Emacipation of the Niger Delta take oil industry employees hostage. Photo credit International Relations and Security ... -
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 ... -
Attacks on Water Supplies
Water supply usually comes from surface water such as lakes, rivers and seas. In many communities, water is pumped from aquifer located underground then routed to a treatment plant, where a ... -
Border Security and Terrorism
When conversation turns to borders at a policy conference or cocktail party, participants usually consider the subject only in relation to a more specific issue. “What we really need is ... -
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 ... -
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” ... -
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 ... -
Security and Aviation (non Military)
National Security;Economic Issues;Safety; andPrestige. Photo: 1970, Jordan --- Huge columns of smoke pour from the wreckage of three multimillion dollar international airlines destroyed ... -
Terrorism and the Information Age (Cyberterrorism)
[I]t is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for purposes of spying and thereby they achieve great results. Spies are a most important ...
