Summary
Terrorism has been used as a tactic against governments and other entities of power throughout history. In this timely, fascinating book, Terrorism examines the history of such terrorist acts, and defines the different types of terrorism experienced throughout the world, from the struggles in Northern Ireland to the more recent events of September 11, 2001. Each chapter examines a particular branch of terrorism by analyzing historical cases and discussing the tactics used by the terrorists, how government and law enforcement responded, and what influence the event had on future antiterrorism efforts. Although terrorist acts often rise above the level of mere crime, criminal activity is essential to most terrorist pursuits, whether in the form of forged documents, smuggled explosives, or illegal money-laundering.
Chapters include:
- Utopian Terrorism
- Assassination: Terrorist Tool
- State-On-State Terrorism
- Total War—Weapons of Mass Destruction
- The Future of Terrorism—The Future of Politics.
Topics covered include:
- The Irish Republican Brotherhood
- Narodnaya Volya, Russian anti-Czarist terrorists
- Irgun and Lehi terrorist campaign against the British
- Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, separatists who attempted to assassinate President Harry Truman
- The capture of the USS Pueblo by North Korea
- The Achille Lauro hijacking
- The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland
- The Aum Shinrikyo gas attack on the Tokyo subways
- The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City
- The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Specifications
Full-color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Sidebars. Chronology. Bibliography. Endnotes. Further resources. Index.
About the Author(s)
Ben Malisow holds a degree in military history from the United States Air Force Academy and an MBA. While in the military, he was trained by the U.S. Army in small-unit tactics and tools, received Department of Defense certification as an interrogator for the SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) School, and took part in covert counternarcotics operations in the Southern Hemisphere. His writing has appeared in various publications as ANSER’s Homeland Defense Journal, SecurityFocus.com, and the SANS Reading Room, among others.