Terrorism/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Insurgency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Asymmetrical warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

• Counterterrorism [r]: A range of activities that prevent attempted terrorism well before an actual act is close to being executed, including killing or capturing terrorists; complements and can include anti-terrorism, or measures taken to minimize the impact of an attempted or completed act; counterterrorism proper is "enemy centric" rather than counterinsurgency, which is "people-centric" ^[e]

Motivations

• Nationalism [r]: Strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance. ^[e]
• Radical Islamism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Radicalization [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Self-radicalization [r]: Add brief definition or description

Theoreticians

• Abdullah Azzam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Carlos Marighella [r]: Add brief definition or description
• George Grivas [r]: (1898-1974) Greek Army officer and intense anticommunist who commanded guerrillas and wrote doctrinal manual including techniques of terrorism during the civil war in Cyprus ^[e]
• Sayyid Qutb [r]: Add brief definition or description

Analysts

• Anthony Cordesman [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Francis Fukuyama [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bruce Hoffman [r]: Terrorism author; Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University; previously an executive and researcher with the RAND Corporation; board member, Jamestown Foundation; Board, Terrorism/Counterterrorism, Human Rights Watch; Expert panel, Iraq Study Group ^[e]
• Fernando Reinares [r]: Add brief definition or description

Counterterrorists

• Richard Clarke [r]: Career U.S. defense official who served in policy posts in the Ronald Reagan,George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations, specializing in counterterrorism in the latter two ^[e]
• Jack Cloonan [r]: Add brief definition or description

Related topics

• Assassination [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Clandestine cell system [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Counterinsurgency [r]: Theory and practice of defeating insurgency without creating even more local resistance or strategic failures ^[e]
• Mass casualty incident [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Improvised explosive device [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Add brief definition or description