Sharing the Dragon's Teeth Terrorist Groups and the Exchange of New Technologies
Terrorist groups--both inside and outside the al Qaeda network--sometimes form mutually beneficial partnerships to exchange "best practices." These exchanges provide terrorist groups with the opportunity to innovate (i.e., increase their skills and expand their reach). Understanding how te...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Monica
RAND Corp.
2007, 2007
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Terrorist groups--both inside and outside the al Qaeda network--sometimes form mutually beneficial partnerships to exchange "best practices." These exchanges provide terrorist groups with the opportunity to innovate (i.e., increase their skills and expand their reach). Understanding how terrorist groups exchange technology and knowledge, therefore, is essential to ongoing and future counterterrorism strategies. This study examines how 11 terrorist groups in three areas (Mindanao, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and southwest Colombia) have attempted to exchange technologies and knowled |
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| Physical Description: | 137 pages |
| ISBN: | 0833039156 1281180920 9781281180926 |