Course Name
INT 396 Terrorist Techniques (4.5 quarter units)
Description
This course deals with the strategies, tactics, and methods used by terrorists. Students will learn to distinguish between clandestine and semi-clandestine operations. They will learn to recognize and describe the securing of financing and weaponry, the criteria used for target selection (symbolic or representative nature, functional importance, and vulnerability), the roles played by the group’s operational nucleus and its logistical support base, the preliminary surveillance of targets, the transfer of weapons to the operational area, the insertion of the assault team, the extraction of the assault team (except in the case of “martyrdom operations”), the role played by the group’s active and passive supporters (front groups, etc.), the exploitation of the media and post-facto claiming of responsibility, the avoidance of security force dragnets, and how terrorists react to and prosper from the action’s fallout. Case studies of successful and unsuccessful terrorist operations are used to illustrate the types of techniques employed in different phases of terrorist operations..
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