Amateurism : the new terrorist strategy
The attacker in the December 2014 Sydney hostage crisis was not a 'lone wolf', but an amateur, part of a growing trend that international terrorst groups have encouraged. This strategy works because it uses the amateurism itself to evade standard counterterrorist practices, expands potenti...
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| author | Justin, V. Hastings |
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| description | The attacker in the December 2014 Sydney hostage crisis was not a 'lone wolf', but an amateur, part of a growing trend that international terrorst groups have encouraged. This strategy works because it uses the amateurism itself to evade standard counterterrorist practices, expands potential targets, and takes advantage of governments' overreaction to terrorism. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1000012020-11-01T07:21:08Z Amateurism : the new terrorist strategy Justin, V. Hastings S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies The attacker in the December 2014 Sydney hostage crisis was not a 'lone wolf', but an amateur, part of a growing trend that international terrorst groups have encouraged. This strategy works because it uses the amateurism itself to evade standard counterterrorist practices, expands potential targets, and takes advantage of governments' overreaction to terrorism. 2015-09-07T07:47:40Z 2019-12-06T20:14:49Z 2015-09-07T07:47:40Z 2019-12-06T20:14:49Z 2015 2015 Commentary Justin, V. H. (2015). Amateurism : the new terrorist strategy. (RSIS Commentaries, No. 018). RSIS Commentaries. Singapore: Nanyang Technological University. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100001 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38624 en RSIS Commentaries, 018-15 Nanyang Technological University 3 p. application/pdf |
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