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It is a purpose and tactic with which governments are quite familiar in international relations. The idea of the tactic is to make the possibility of noncapitulation terrible beyond endurance (Schelling, 1966, p. 15). The United States employed such a strategy with the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Christmas bombings of Hanoi in 1972 (for further elaboration Chapter 8). At the domestic level we are all quite familiar with the war movie version of relations between the occupying force and the occupied nations wherein the occupying commander threatens the lives of fifty or a hundred villagers unless information about the resistance is forthcoming from the village.
S. government, media, and public as well as gain influence within their own society. S. government was not the only intended audience. S. public and the publics of the other Western nations and their own supporters and opponents in Lebanon and the Middle East. S. government reaction and, more importantly, the public and media overreaction served to accomplish the major purposes of the terrorist act. 3 The key words are purposeful, violence, fear, victim, and audience. It is crucial to understand that we must distinguish the victims of the violent act from the Page 4 targets (the audience of that violence).
Grabosky 59 Introduction The Recruitment, Organization, and Logistical Support of Urban Terrorists Strategic Considerations of Insurgent and Repressive Terrorists Urban-Oriented Tactics Targets Repressive Terror and Terror Countermeasures References 3. Political Disintegration and Latent Terror Peter R. Knauss and D. A. Strickland 85 Theoretical Framework Case Studies Conclusions Notes References 4. Societal Structure and Revolutionary Terrorism: A Preliminary Investigation Harry R. Targ 127 Introduction Conceptualizations of Political Terrorism: A Critical Analysis A Structural Model of Political Terrorism Societal Structure, Revolutionary Organization, and Political Terrorism Incidences of Political Terrorism Conclusion Notes References Page xi 5.
