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Teaching Terror: Strategic and Tactical Learning in the Terrorist World

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This book, written by diverse group of scholars, makes an important contribution to the exploding literature on terrorism studies. The authors explain how a variety of extremist groups, including the Provisional Irish Republican Army, Jemaah Islamiya, Hamas, radical environmentalists, and, of course, Al Qaeda, learn their violent tactics and tradecraft, using this knowledge to carry out attacks against non-combatants. Teaching Terror should be useful to scholars and practitioners of counter-terrorism and homeland security, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level students in courses on terrorism, homeland security, and international security.

James J.F. Forest (Director of Terrorism Studies at the U.S. Military Academy) presents Teaching Terror: Strategic And Tactical Learning In The Terrorist World, an anthology of serious and didactic essays by a wide selection of scholarly authors compiling knowledge about terrorist organizations - specifically, about how they are taught and self-taught. Topics of discussion range from virtual training camps to the media as a terrorism showcase to technical issues affecting potential nuclear and radiological terrorism, to renewed strategies employed by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia. In compiling what modern scholasticism tells us about the transfer of knowledge among terrorists groups of various faiths and political leanings, Teaching Terror offers a vital resource of information for strategizing new ways to combat terror and protect society. Highly recommended reading.