Terrorism and Late Nineteenth Century
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to give a brief overview on history of terrorism and how it impacts the United States. Additionally, this paper will provide some insight on the previous and current presidential administration’s attempts to protect this great nation from terrorist acts
Introduction
Ever since the Al Qaeda’s attack of September 11, 2012, against the United States, our nation has implemented counterterrorism policies to combat jihadist terrorism. Sadly terrorism is not a phenomenon. This paper will take a very brief look at terrorist events against America. It is important to define terrorism as a systematic way of implementing terror via violent means of coercion. Terrorism is usually driven by political, religious or ideological goal; and deliberately target or disregard the safety of innocent bystanders. Terrorism is also defined as an unlawful act of war and violence (Terrorism research). “The single biggest threat to U.S. security, both short-term, medium-term and long-term,” President Barack Obama stated on April 11, is the possibility that terrorists might obtain a nuclear weapon. The second biggest threat to world history’s mightiest military state, it goes without saying, are terrorists without nuclear weapons but armed with box-cutters, rifles or homemade explosives (The Oval, 2012).
History of Terrorism
Where do we start to address the origin of terrorism? David Rapoport a religion Scholar and political scientist published a 2004 essay outlining forms of terrorism, these forms are known as the “ four waves ” of modern terrorism: the “ Anarchist Wave, ” stretching from the 1880s through 1914; the “ Anti-Colonial Wave, ” spanning the 1920s through the 1960s; the “ New Left Wave, ” from the 1960s through the 1990s; and the “ Religious Wave, ” which began with the 1979 Iran hostage crisis and persists to this day (25).
Anarchist terrorism was the first wave, when the United States was well known as a haven for
The purpose of this paper is to give a brief overview on history of terrorism and how it impacts the United States. Additionally, this paper will provide some insight on the previous and current presidential administration’s attempts to protect this great nation from terrorist acts
Introduction
Ever since the Al Qaeda’s attack of September 11, 2012, against the United States, our nation has implemented counterterrorism policies to combat jihadist terrorism. Sadly terrorism is not a phenomenon. This paper will take a very brief look at terrorist events against America. It is important to define terrorism as a systematic way of implementing terror via violent means of coercion. Terrorism is usually driven by political, religious or ideological goal; and deliberately target or disregard the safety of innocent bystanders. Terrorism is also defined as an unlawful act of war and violence (Terrorism research). “The single biggest threat to U.S. security, both short-term, medium-term and long-term,” President Barack Obama stated on April 11, is the possibility that terrorists might obtain a nuclear weapon. The second biggest threat to world history’s mightiest military state, it goes without saying, are terrorists without nuclear weapons but armed with box-cutters, rifles or homemade explosives (The Oval, 2012).
History of Terrorism
Where do we start to address the origin of terrorism? David Rapoport a religion Scholar and political scientist published a 2004 essay outlining forms of terrorism, these forms are known as the “ four waves ” of modern terrorism: the “ Anarchist Wave, ” stretching from the 1880s through 1914; the “ Anti-Colonial Wave, ” spanning the 1920s through the 1960s; the “ New Left Wave, ” from the 1960s through the 1990s; and the “ Religious Wave, ” which began with the 1979 Iran hostage crisis and persists to this day (25).
Anarchist terrorism was the first wave, when the United States was well known as a haven for