Trends in Terrorists’ Weapons Adoption and the Study Thereof

Tishler, Nicole Alexandra

doi:10.1093/isr/vix038

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“…The main focus for research to date on this subject has been to explore terrorist decision-making processes (e.g. Moghadam, 2013;Knight, Keane and Murphy, 2015;Tishler, 2017), creativity within terrorist groups (e.g. Cropley, Kaufman and Cropley, 2008;Gill, Horgan, Hunter and Cushenbery, 2013;Gill, 2017) and learning by terrorists (e.g.…”

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What drives terrorist innovation? Lessons from Black September and Munich 1972

Silke

Filippidou

2019

Secur J

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Understanding terrorist innovation has emerged as a critical research question.Terrorist innovation challenges status quo assumptions about the nature of terrorist threats and emphasises a need for counterterrorism policy and practice to attempt to not simply react to changes in terrorist tactics and strategies but also to try to anticipate them. This study focused on a detailed examination of the 1972 Munich Olympics attack and draws on the wide range of open source accounts available, including from terrorists directly involved but also from among the authorities and victims. Using an analytical framework proposed by Rasmussen and Hafez (2010), several key drivers are identified and described, both internal to the group and external to its environment. The study concludes that the innovation shown by Black September was predictable and that Munich represented a profound security failure as much as it did successful terrorist innovation.

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