This article mainly focuses on the strategy on terrorism. The author of the book argue that terrorism is logical and a successful way to an end. The authors also say that terrorists do use different strategies depending on their political goals which they would like to achieve. The author further says that the strategies can be broken down into five different categories. This include: attrition; which implies inflicting the greatest possible costs on its enemy population. Attrition may entail suicide bombing and many others which has the ability to inflict the greatest possible cost on its enemy population.
Another form of terrorism is intimidation; this used especially on occasions when the terrorists want to overthrow the government or to control a given population. This act entails terrorists demonstrating their commitment and willingness to punish to inflict future cost. Another category of terrorism includes provocation which is used to convince a given population that their regime is bad. Spoiling; this is the strategy that is used by the terrorist when they think that the two moderate parties might rich a peace deal which might interfere with their political goals. The last strategy is outbidding that is used when two groups are in competition for the support of their audience.
Personally I have enjoyed very much the argument in this article. The article has given me a chance to critically reflect upon the way terrorists carry out their acts of terrorism. The authors of the article critically and comprehensively enabled me to understand the ways through which terrorists do carry out their activities. I also strongly believe that the article is very useful to security departments that deal with terrorism. Such departments might find the article useful because it equips them with the knowledge and skills used by the terrorists to attack a given state. Such knowledge is very useful when comes to dealing with terrorists.
Work Cited
Andrew Kydd, BabaraWalter. “The Strategies of Terrorism: international security”. U.S.A:Mit press. Volume 31, Number 1, summer 2006, pp.49-79 (Article).
Mingst, Karen, Snyder,Jack.” Essential Readings in World Politics”. U.S.A: Norton, 2007.
