The Dynamic Terrorist Threat
Subtitle: An Assessment of Group Motivations and Capabilities in a Changing World
Publisher: RAND Corporation; RAND
Published: March 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780833034946
Subjects: Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; Terrorists; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Threats; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Political Science / General; Prevention; Terrorism; United States
First sentence: On September 5, 1972, eight Palestinians entered the dormitory of Israeli Olympians in Munich, West Germany, and kidnapped nine athletes.
Description: As the war on terrorism wages on, our nation's policymakers will continue to face the challenge of assessing threats that various terrorist groups pose to the U.S. homeland and our interests abroad. As part of the RAND Corporation's yearlong "Thinking Strategically About Combating Terrorism" project, the authors of this report develop a way to assess and analyze the danger posed by various terrorist organizations around the world. The very nature of terrorism creates a difficulty in predicting new and emerging threats; however, by establishing these types of parameters, the report creates a fresh foundation of threat analysis on which future counterterrorism strategy may build.