Moreover, capacity in the Net is getting cheaper to build. With the increasing participation of third world cities, the world is increasingly becoming a network of networks. The occupation of enough rural territory left cities ripe for takeover. To conquer a country requires taking a city on its own terms. Organized political assassination is not too different from random assassination here.
Terrorist acts resemble vandalism and arson.
Many urban guerrillas are financed, in part, through crime against property. Such analogies have their limits. Where law has broken down entirely and many urban services have ceased to function as in Beirut, urban warfare more resembles rural conflict. Active control over neighborhoods under such circumstances is analogous to active control over village districts and is as hard to pull off. How states combat urban terrorism depend on the values of the body politic.