Terrorism Concepts No Answer Available; Essay

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The exportation of Saudi-born terrorist could backfire when these jihadists return from places like Iraq and turn their attention towards the royal family, whom many of them already hate. Essentially, Saudi is promoting the idea that terrorism is a viable path to political change, and that won't necessarily sit well when the chickens eventually come home to roost.

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Hezbollah can now be seen as a partner to Iran rather than a proxy for its national government due to the simple fact that the Iranian government has little or no direct control over the day-to-day activities of Hezbollah, leaving the organization largely independent and focused far more on domestic Lebanese concerns rather than on issue more important to Iran.

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Byman suggests that rather than simply labeling states with a "rogue state" status, true regime and political change is necessary in countries that pose this threat. He also asserts that this has "little to do with Washington," however, and thus is not advocating direct military action by the U.S. Or other nations/international entities to bring about this change.

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Metz sees the "new" state sponsored terrorism as terrorism sponsored against external enemies, and the three goals he identifies for such terrorism are to undermine the other regime's support, to break the morale of its elites, or to change a particular policy of the regime.

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A primary advantage that is noted in the use of state-sponsored terrorism rather than the use of conventional military forces is the cost effectiveness of such a strategy, as it avoids the cost of outfitting and paying a conventional military force as a trade off for true control.

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Disbanding a terrorist organization, Metz notes, is often more difficult than starting one, as such organizations typically develop enough internal structure and drive to continue their operations without the need for the original state sponsor for resources or objectives.9)

In order for a state to view terrorism as a viable part of their foreign policy, according to Metz, there must first be an in international situation perceived as intensely threatening, and second there must be a way for the regime to justify extraordinary violence domestically and internationally.

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Ideology helps to justify terrorism primarily by simplifying situations and policy issues, making it possible to carry out/condone violent acts without an awareness of the complexities of a situation.

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The stage of the power of vexation and exhaustion, the stage of the administration of savagery, and the stage of the power of establishment.

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The terrain and geography of the country must facilitate the creation of certain isolated pockets or regions that can be initially controlled by the entering terrorist regime (reminiscent of Mao's first stage of revolutionary mobilization, which also depended on topography).

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Attracting new youth to terrorist movements for the performance of "qualitative operations" is one of the primary goals of the stage of the power of vexation and exhaustion., enabling the terrorist organization to continue building momentum in this phase.

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Military forces can only concentrate so much in any given area, and when they are at maximum capacity their numbers can be known, they become an inefficient force, and there is a liability for a greater number of absolute and proportionate losses with such concentration. Dispersal, on the other hand, makes the force weaker at all points and thus less effective….....