1. Introduction
2. Readings
3. Terrorism and Homeland Security
4. Unique Characteristics of Today's Terrorism
5. Where is the Threat Today?
6. Terrorism Myths
7. Summary
8. Activities
9. Citations

Summary

In summary, the takeaways for this lesson are:

• Defining terrorism is vague and multiple faceted but important in order to develop cooperation
• Individual biases and international events significantly influence perception of terrorism
• A state of war changes the international paradigm of “What is acceptable” and is one of the facets referred to above
• Pre-mediation is an element of terrorism just like in murder therefore intent matters.
• Terrorism requires a broad strategy to combat it and cannot be addressed as a crime in which rehabilitation through social projects is the only counter-measure.
• Trying to define terrorism wastes time in combating it (McIntyre, NPS 7/26/07)