Trends in Terrorism
Tags: Trends, Ideology, Motivation, Education, Terrorism

Introduction

The US government spends over a trillion US dollars per year on the war department. The war department changed its name to the Department of Defense (DoD) to not sound as though killing were the only motivation to incite war. The adversaries can no longer compete in conventional warfare against the #1 US military. Asymmetric warfare is the best strategy. Asymmetric warfare seeks to gain small advantages from small cells against a better-funded and stronger foe. Depending on the team the asymmetric warfare fighters claim comes the determination by the US government e.g. terrorist, freedom fighter, and or special operator. This brief essay will explore the trends in asymmetric warfare considered terrorism with varying perspectives.

Ideology

The Sunni asymmetric warfare fighters from Southwest Asia have near-identical ideology as the Catholic religion. After all, both the Bible and Koran were plagiarized from Hindu texts. In the US, catholicism is considered the true religion of the affluent people. The same is true of the affluent Sunni's in Southwest Asia. Both affluent cultures want only the affluent to survive and thrive. All others are considered garbage. Unfortunately, this is where the similarities stop.

The Sunni affluent were the primary financial source of the 911 event. The Sunni believe they are the rightful owners of all Earth's land. The US continued to meddle in Southwest Asian affairs. Thus, the Sunni elite decided to punish the US affluents in NYC, the heart of affluent US people. The 911 event sent a strong message of asymmetric capabilities and intents by the Sunni affluent leaders. The US government responded with zero sanctions against the financial 911 backers, the Saudi Arabian affluent. Instead, the DoD invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.

On the flip side of the Sunni affluent is the working-class Shia. Shia is the religion of the people, similar to Protestants in the US. The major asymmetric warfare clashes are between religious ideology (9/11 Commission Report, 2003). For example, in Yemen, the rebels are Shia fighting against the affluent Saudi Sunni's with US targeting and intelligence help. The US and Saudi affluent consider the rebels as terrorists because of an ideological difference. The US government is supporting the primary 911 terrorists against asymmetric warfare fighters with a working-class ideology (Krebs, 2002). This is history repeating itself, red scare 3.0, perhaps. The affluents' labeling the working class as terrorists is the latest evolution in asymmetric warfare trends.

Terrorist trends

The first terrorism trend concerns the terrorist cell’s modus operands, specifical communications. Logically, terrorist cells must communicate to effectively perform a terrorist event. The 9/11 Commission Report showed the terrorist groups communicated via phones, emails, and rare in-person meetings (911 Commission report, 2003). In the 21st century, terrorist groups have access and use encrypted messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp, so these communications must be monitored from the NSA’s metadata program. The metadata will provide the time, date, and length of the texts and or calls. The establishment of all foreign visitors’ watch lists is advised for the next three to nine months. Using the NSA’s capabilities to gain this intelligence, the FBI can detect and track suspicious activities from the intelligence collection communications indicators.

The next terrorism trends are the terrorist group’s motivation and psychology. The terrorists want to create mass casualties in a CBRN attack (Maurer, 2009). The motivation stems from the terrorist group’s misinterpretation of the terrorist group ideology, death to the infidels (Asal, Ackerman, & Rethemeyer, 2012). The terrorists also want to cause a political change in the US government. By doing a terrorist event on US soil, the terrorist’s psychological perspective yields the most media coverage as well as shock and awe to the terrorist groups' cause (Asal, Ackerman, & Rethemeyer, 2012). A CBRN attack is the ideal means for the terrorist’s ideological motivation and psychology to achieve the terrorist group’s intended purpose of political change (US Department of Justice, 2005).

Conclusion

The US DoD is the most funded militaries on Earth by far, #1 in weapons and morbidly obese people, proud country, haha. Asymmetric warriors must do smash and grabs to stand a fighting chance. The 911 financial architects are in bed with the affluent US government. The shared goal is stamping out the working class, red scare 3.0. Asymmetric warriors are winning the battles. The essay also reviewed terrorist trends. This brief essay explores the trends in asymmetric warfare considered terrorism with varying perspectives.

References

9/11 Commission Report. (2003). National Commission on Terrorist Attacks — The United States of America, 259–263, 167–168. Retrieved September 26, 2020, from http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf

Asal, V., Ackerman, G., & Rethemeyer, K. (2012). Connections can be toxic: Terrorist organizational factors and the pursuit of CBRN terrorism. Studies of Conflict & Terrorism.

Krebs, E. (2002). Mapping networks of terrorist cells. ACLU.org. Retrieved September 26, 2020, from https://www.aclu.org/files/fbimappingfoia/20111110/ACLURM002810.pdf

Maurer, S. (2009). WMD terrorism: Science and policy choices. Cambridge: MIT Press.

US Department of Justice. (2005). Terrorism 2002–2005. FBI.gov. Retrieved September 26, 2020, from https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/terrorism-2002-2005