Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism

2015 Dying to Win Issue Analysis In Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism Robert Pape examines the Western misconceptions of suicide terrorism and the failures of foreign policy towards addressing this trans-national issue. Failures to recognize the issue of policy towards Suicide Terrorism worsens the issue and making this issue only larger. This paper will analyze Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism and refute the unrealistic Western perception of suicide terrorism

Dying To Win, Robert A. Pape challenges the views about why suicide terrorists do what they do and to whom. Pape is trying to convey that "suicide terrorism is rising around the world" (Pape pg. 6). Since many terrorist attacks have been perpetrated by Muslim terrorist motivated by religious beliefs, it makes people think that Islamic fundamentalism is the central cause. The connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism is incorrect, and encourage foreign countries to harm many

fuels terrorism. Extremist groups seek to instill fear among citizens to prompt the governments to adopt policies that the extremists desire. The key premise of Dying to Win is that terrorism is not irrational, but rather just one among a number of political strategies. Terrorist organizations are guided by the aspiration to achieve a particular goal; to expel a foreign army from their territory and to instill fear in societies around the world to prevent a military invasion. Suicide Terrorism is strategic

and history of terrorism in chapter two. Terrorist groups have many things in commons. The terrorist groups are weaker than their opponents. The modern suicide terrorism is lethal because the terrorist purpose is not only to die, but to kill others. Pape states that his account about suicide terrorism should not be treated as a general explanation for terrorism. Pape wrote that terrorism has two purposes: to gain supporters and to persuade opponents. There are many types of terrorism, but Pape talks

are assuming that the chief motivating factor behind the decisions of terrorist organizations is the political outcome of their acts balanced against the risk and collateral damage inflicted to achieve this end. We will also weigh in the appeal of terrorism on potential recruits in weak states and determine how the motivations of the group become the motivation of the individual and how this benefits the decentralized organization of terrorist organizations like al Qaeda. What Motivates Terrorists

the establishment of Al-Qaeda and ISIS, proves the war stimulate the growth of terrorism organization, and the data shows the period after a war occurs, the times of terrorists’ attacks increased. Terrorists’ attacks have a long history, but the original purpose have never changed. The ancient terrorists’ attacks are small range located on individuals assassinate instead of group attacks. In the Terrorism Research website, it states that the earliest terrorists’ attacks happened in 1st

Another misconception is that fanatics create suicide terrorist attacks in isolated events, this is false. The majority of suicide attacks are usually clustered events, which are part of a large campaign to coerce a government. Those who reside in the most upper rankings of the organization, strategically and carefully plan the timing of these campaigns. The timing of the attacks can be used to allow time for negations, to encourage a government to act more swiftly, or to allow time for regrouping

ABSTRACT Nation building and remodeling societies in the Middle East is therefore the wrong policy to pursue, when the West should be minimalizing its visible presence as much as possible. Since Muslim fundamentalism is not the real cause of terrorism, attempting to change these countries will only generate more attacks against the West. Left to their own devices, most of these groups would not attack the U.S. at all, since Hamas and Hezbollah operated mainly in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank,

Today is the Terrorism Challenge Unique Literature Review This literature review looks at the question of terrorism from a top-down standpoint. In the three sections the act of terrorism itself is discussed, then who the leading terrorist organizations are and have been, and finally what significant events have taken place. The final issue is whether terrorism is, to some extent, a means, eventually, to a more positive form of change. Terrorism Researchers agree that terrorism is not an easy

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