Naval War College Review
Abstract
Since the attacks of 11 September, a kind of conventional wisdom about counterterrorism has emerged. On one hand, the “new terrorism” involves the violent expression of a radical religious agenda, suicide attackers, and mass- casualty violence. It is, therefore, both harder to deter and more destructive than the old ideological and ethno- nationalist varieties of terrorism, whose practitioners, in Brian Michael Jenkins’s now classic (and obsolete) formulation, wanted a lot of people watching, not a lot of people dead. On the other hand, the takedown, led by the United States, of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan forced the operational core of al-Qa‘ida to disperse and the transnational terror- ism network to become even more flat and decentralized.
Recommended Citation
Stevenson, Jonathan
(2008)
"Counterterrorism Strategies,"
Naval War College Review: Vol. 61:
No.
1, Article 16.
Available at:
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol61/iss1/16
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