Terrorism and Its Implications for Democratic States

So I found this course, and followed a link, and followed lesson 4, “WHAT IS THE FUTURE FACE OF TERRORISM?”

“In June 1994, the Pentagon’s enigmatic Office of Special Operations and Low Intensity Warfare or “SOLIC” published one of the most thoughtful and accurate predictions of future trends in terrorism ever written.
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this prophetic study was considered too alarmist and far-fetched. It was quietly filed and given a typical bureaucratic death. …
the motivation of terrorists appears to be shifting… What appears to be emerging is a desired goal to devastate a target, not simply to politically influence an audience.
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[New Forms]
Enhanced Conventional (for Mass Casualties)
Innovative Means of Conventional Weapons
for Mass Casualties
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The assassination of Mr. Rabin by a fellow Jew stopped the Arab-Israeli dialogue for several years and assisted a hard-line, right wing government into office.
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