Terrorism/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Asymmetrical warfare: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

• Counterterrorism: Add brief definition or description

Motivations

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

Theoreticians

• Abdullah Azzam: Add brief definition or description
• Carlos Marighella: Add brief definition or description
• George Grivas: (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: Add brief definition or description

Events

• probably should go to catalog
• Reign of Terror: Add brief definition or description
• Great Terror: Add brief definition or description
• The Troubles: Add brief definition or description
• 9/11: Add brief definition or description

Non-state organizations using terror

• Catalog?
•  Al-Qaeda: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9/11 attack and other terrorist attacks. ^[e]
• ELAS (Cyprus): Add brief definition or description
• ETA (Basque): Add brief definition or description
•  Hukbalahap: A Marxist-Leninist resistance to the WWII Japanese invasion of the Philippines, which continued as a postwar insurgency whose members were either defeated or amnestied ^[e]
• Irgun: Add brief definition or description
•  Irish Republican Army: Add brief definition or description
• Japanese Red Army: Add brief definition or description
• Red Army Faction: Add brief definition or description
• Revolutionary Cells: Add brief definition or description
• Red Brigades: Add brief definition or description

Quasi-state organizations using terror

•  Hamas: The most powerful political and military organization in the Occupied Territories, especially the Gaza Strip; offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood but not Salafism ^[e]
•  Hezbollah: An Islamist and Shi'a group, centered in Lebanon, which has conducted terrorism there and worldwide, but also acts a shadow government and provides public services ^[e]
•  Viet Cong: The military wing of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF); a generic term for Communist forces in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War ^[e]
• Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam: Add brief definition or description
•  Viet Minh: Add brief definition or description
• Shining Path: Add brief definition or description

Analysts

• Anthony Cordesman: Add brief definition or description
• Francis Fukuyama: Add brief definition or description
• Bruce Hoffman: Add brief definition or description
•  Martin Libicki: Add brief definition or description
• Fernando Reinares: Add brief definition or description

Counterterrorists

•  Richard Clarke: Add brief definition or description
• Jack Cloonan: Add brief definition or description

Related topics

• Assassination: Add brief definition or description
•  Clandestine cell system: Add brief definition or description
• Counterinsurgency: Add brief definition or description
•  Mass casualty incident: Add brief definition or description
• Improvised explosive device: Add brief definition or description
•  Weapons of mass destruction: Add brief definition or description