Nigh on ten years since 9/11 no agreed definition of terrorism exists still. Indeed the original nations of the Coalition of the Willing who previously pursued a 'War on Terror' so vigorously (Australia, Britain and the United States) have come full circle to presently disown entirely the very notion of a 'War on Terror.' A key stumbling point towards definition remains whether terrorism should be classified as an act of crime or of war. The two conceptualisations are philosophically and fundamentally opposed and inevitably from each flows entirely different strategic prescriptions to counter the phenomenon. If policy is to be guided adequately, let alone optimally, the philosophical arguments of each camp must be thrown headlong into one another, with the last philosophy standing the victor and then claiming the policy spoils.
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