Tag: terrorism
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Countering Islamist Political Extremism by Orchestrating the Instruments of National Power
This event is part of the Winning without War series sponsored by The Institute of World Politics. About the lecture: Despite suffering repeated setbacks in recent years, Islamic extremism or more specifically, totalitarian Islamism, and the terrorism it spawns, remains a major threat to the United States and its allies. While there will always be…
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Terrorist Advocacy and Propaganda (IWP 686)
Dr. Christopher C. Harmon discusses his course on Terrorist Advocacy and Propaganda (IWP 686, 2 credits). Course Objectives: Terrorism has been well-defined as “the deliberate and systematic murder, maiming, and menacing of the innocent to inspire fear for political ends” (Jonathan Institute, 1979). Because terrorism always has a political character, it is not only action…
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Iran as Competitor: Measured, Violent, Relentless
Read more: Marine Corps University, Brute Krulak Center for Innovation & Creativity In April the United States government imposed new sanctions on a large, well-functioning segment of state power and governance of Iran: the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Iran is of course a long-time rival power to the United States in the Middle East, and it…
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How Do We Learn?
How Do We Learn? How is it that we anticipate a coming threat, so as to understand and meet it? Unusually, the danger may be new. The Internet was revolutionary, so cyber attack is largely a new threat to us. It cannot be met by hiring more postal inspectors but must be considered and defeated…
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Remembering 23 October
The article below by Prof. Christopher Harmon was published on October 22, 2013 in the “PTSS Daily” newsletter of the Program on Terrorism & Security Studies at the George C. Marshall Center. The 23rd of October, which falls on a Wednesday this year, signals the 30th anniversary of one of the most significant dual-bombings in the history of low-intensity…
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Spain’s ETA Terrorist Group is Dying
Originally published at Orbis Orbis Volume 56, Issue 4, Autumn 2012, Pages 588-607 The armed organization “Basque Fatherland & Liberty” undertook a struggle for an independent homeland vis-à-vis Spanish central government over half a century ago. But today, the author argues, the ETA appears doomed for three reasons. First, Spanish statesmen of the late 1970s…
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Anarchism & Fire in London: A Centenary
“Anarchism & Fire in London: A Centenary” In London, one hundred years ago, on the weekday morning of 3 January, citizens awoke amidst “The Siege of Sidney Street.” Well-armed Anarchists tried to rob a jeweler, murdered police who responded, and then disappeared within the city. Located in an apartment building after two weeks, they were…
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Illustrations of Discrete Uses of Force in Counterterrorism
Read the full article here In 1901, an insurrection in the Philippines Islands brought prominence to a talented but relatively inexperienced general of U.S. Army volunteers, Frederick Funston. He demonstrated that good intelligence and deception were still as valuable as when the Chinese commander Sun Tzu called them the very essence of war some 2400…
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Propaganda at pistol point: The use and abuse of education by leftist terrorists
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10584609.1992.9962931 The common tendency to speak and write of terrorists as “mindless,” and to either dismiss or dread them accordingly, is inappropriate. Many leftist extremists are deadly serious about their ideas. Most group leaders of the last three decades have been college‐educated at a minimum; many have professional backgrounds as teachers, college professors, writers, lawyers,…
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Public diplomacy’s next challenge
Connections Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring 2008), pp. 141-153 (13 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/26323324?seq=1 Despite seven years of experiments, U.S. public diplomacy against international terrorism has largely failed. What is most needed is a strong infusion of fresh ideas. The rhetorical branch of the offensive against terror has been utterly neglected. U.S. spokesmen should re-open the argument…