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Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Chapter 1. Defining Terrorism -- Chapter 2. The End of Empire and the Origins of Contemporary Terrorism -- Chapter 3. The Internationalization of Terrorism -- Chapter 4. Religion and Terrorism -- Chapter 5. Suicide Terrorism -- Chapter 6. The Old Media, Terrorism,and Public Opinion -- Chapter 7. The New Media, Terrorism, and the Shaping of Global Opinion -- Chapter 8. The Modern Terrorist Mind-set: Tactics, Targets, Tradecraft, and Technologies -- Chapter 9. Terrorism Today and Tomorrow -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.;Bruce Hoffmans Inside Terrorism has remained a seminal work for understanding the historical evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mindset. In this revised edition of the classic text, Hoffman analyzes the new adversaries, motivations, and tactics of global terrorism that have emerged in recent years, focusing specifically on how al Qaeda has changed since 9/11; the reasons behind its resiliency, resonance, and longevity; and its successful use of the Internet and videotapes to build public support and gain new recruits. Hoffman broadens the discussion by evaluating the potential repercussions of the Iraqi insurgency, the use of suicide bombers, terrorist exploitation of new communications media, and the likelihood of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear terrorist strike. Closer to home, Hoffman reconsiders the Timothy McVeigh case and the threats posed by American Christian white supremacists and abortion opponents as well as those posed by militant environmentalists and animal rights activists. He argues that the attacks on the World Trade Center fundamentally transformed the Wests view of the terrorist threat. More relevant and necessary than ever, Inside Terrorism continues to be the definitive work on the history and future of global terrorism.
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Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition
This sequel to Inside Terrorism was written between March and July 2005. My original intention was simply to update and refresh a work that had retained both its relevance and its acuity despite having first been published in 1998. Once I became engrossed in these revisions, however, it soon became clear to me that a more extensive treatment of the trends and developments in terrorism that had unfolded since September 11, 2001, was needed. Before I knew it, my initially modest intentions had produced some seventy thousand new wordsan amount nearly equal to the first editions total word length.
That I was able to write so quickly and effortlessly is perhaps a reflection of the solid analytical foundation that the first edition of Inside Terrorism provided. Readers will recall its central theme that the nature and character of terrorism was changing because new adversaries with very different rationales and motivations had emerged to challenge the conventional wisdom on terrorists and terrorism. We were therefore at the dawn of a new era of terrorist violence, the first edition had concluded, even bloodier and more destructive than before. The attacks on 9/11 clearly validated that conclusion. Indeed, on that day long-standing suppositions that terrorists were more interested in publicity than in killing and that terrorists who justified violence with theological imperatives were no more bloody-minded than their secular counterparts were swept aside in a deafening crescendo of death and destruction. Since then, the connection between terrorism motivated by religion and higher levels of lethality has been demonstrated repeatedly by the succession of suicide terrorist attacks that have occurred in places as diverse as Israel and Indonesia and Moscow and Mombasa. A new chapter of this expanded work accordingly analyzes this phenomenon in detail, assessing the reasons for suicide terrorisms increased popularity as a terrorist strategy and tactic and exploring the means and policies required to counter it.
The other completely new chapter in the book focuses on terrorist use of the Internet and other contemporary, cutting-edge communications technologies. It describes how terrorists are now able to bypass traditional print and broadcast media via the Internet, through inexpensive but professionally produced and edited videotapes, and even with their own dedicated 24/7 television and radio news stations. The consequences of these developments, the chapter argues, are as far-reaching as they are still poorly understood, having already transformed the ability of terrorists to communicate without censorship or other hindrance and thereby attract new sources of recruits, funding, and support that governments have found difficult, if not impossible, to counter.
New material, in fact, can be found in every chapter of the book, ranging from a discussion of the lethally indiscriminate bombing campaign mounted by Irish terrorists on the London Underground more than a century ago to the likely repercussions of the ongoing Iraqi insurgency on future terrorist targeting and tactics. Particular attention in the new edition has been paid to such critical issues as the differences and similarities between terrorists and insurgents; the growing threat of terrorist use of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons; and the likely future trajectory of al Qaedaincluding a detailed assessment of the reasons for its continued resilience, resonance, and longevity.
It is no coincidence that I should have begun thinking about and then writing a new edition of Inside Terrorism, for I have recently returned (albeit part-time) to teaching both undergraduates and graduate students. I should therefore like to thank all the students whom I have had the privilege to teach over the past three years at three unique and world-class institutions devoted either to the study of terrorism specifically or to defense and security studies in general.
The Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, helps ensure that new generations of U.S. Army officers are well schooled in the theory and practice of terrorism and counterterrorism and insurgency and counterinsurgency. I am continually humbled and honored by the opportunity to teach and also learn from these outstanding young men and women who often within months of our class literally are in the front lines of the war on terrorism, commanding troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other places.
No less important to the intellectual vitality that I hope informs this book are the graduate students I have had the pleasure of teaching in the Security Studies Program (SSP) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The diversity of their views, backgrounds, and professional experiences has appreciably enriched my understanding of, and knowledge about, terrorism. The research assistance provided by one of those students, Mr. Weimeng Yeo, was immensely helpful to me in completing this work. No less critical were the translations of original Japanese-language sources concerning Aum Shinrikyo and the 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway provided by another SSP student, Ms. Mayuka Yamazaki.
Finally, I am indebted to Ambassador Barry Desker, director of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and to Professor Rohan Gunaratna, of that institutes International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, for providing me with an extraordinarily convivial setting in which both to finish this book and to teach part of a novel course on counterterrorism and counter-insurgency. The students in that class, hailing from at least a dozen different countries, opened my eyes to a range of issues and concerns specific to Asian security and stability.
Perhaps my greatest debt, however, is to James A. Thomson and Michael D. Rich, respectively president and CEO and executive vice president of the RAND Corporation. Just a week before the August 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, they offered me the opportunity to return to RAND. The timing could not have been better or more prescient. RAND, an independent, objective, nonpartisan research institution, and especially its Washington, D.C. office, have provided an ideal base from which both to study terrorism and to observe the formulation and implementation of counterterrorism policy. Both Jim and Michael were enthusiastic supporters of both the first edition of Inside Terrorism and the revisions and expansion undertaken in this work.
Two other RAND colleagues, Ambassador David Aaron and Brent Bradley, not only supported this effort but arranged for the corporate funds that enabled me to take some time away from my other research and managerial responsibilities to complete this work. I would be remiss not to cite the help, advice, and guidance variously provided by other valued colleagues and friends at RAND, including Peter Chalk, Kim Cragin, Sara Daly, David Egner, Anna-Britt Kasupski, John Parachini, Hilary Peck, Jim Quinlivan, Bill Rosenau, Shirley Ruhe, Karen Treverton, and Mike Wermuth. Suzanne Jones provided critical support as my executive administrative assistant and helped me to carve out the time to concentrate on this effort. That I could do so while still fulfilling my managerial responsibilities as director of the RAND Washington, D.C., office, was made possible by the other members of the office management teamCasey Kane, Kathy Mills, Kathi Webb, David Johnson, and Tammy Prittto whom I am also grateful.
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