| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 160 pages) |
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Strategic Studies Institute monograph |
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SSI monograph.
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| Contents |
Background -- Introduction. Definition and conceptual problems with the term "improvised explosive device" -- Under what circumstances do nonstate groups employ IEDs? -- Preliminary thoughts on IED diffusion : how are IED know-how and technology spread? -- Individual and organizational learning about IEDs -- Jihadist cells in Europe and IED expertise. Preliminary matters -- The 3/11 Madrid train bombings -- The July 2006 German train bombings -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
The first of two interrelated security threats is multifaceted inasmuch as it stems from a complex combination of religious, political, historical, cultural, social, and economic motivational factors caused by the growing predilection for carrying out mass casualty terrorist attacks inside the territories of "infidel" Western countries by clandestine operational cells that are inspired by, and sometimes linked to, various jihadist networks with a global agenda. The second threat is more narrowly technical: the widespread fabrication of increasingly sophisticated and destructive improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by those very same jihadist groups. These devices, if properly constructed, are capable of causing extensive human casualties and significant amounts of physical destruction within their respective blast radiuses. These dual intersecting threats within the recent European context are examined in an effort to assess what they might portend for the future, including within the U.S. homeland |
| Notes |
"November 2012." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-160) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SSI, viewed November 14, 2012) |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Improvised explosive devices -- Europe
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Terrorists -- Europe
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Jihad.
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Security, International -- Europe
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Security, International -- Western countries
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Improvised explosive devices.
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Jihad.
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Security, International.
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Terrorists.
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Terrorister.
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Jihad (heligt krig)
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Internationell säkerhet.
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terrorism -- islam -- fundamentalism -- threat perception -- bombs -- Europe.
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international relations -- security.
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Europe.
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Western countries.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute.
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