Targeting Top Terrorists: How Leadership Decapitation Contributes to Counterterrorism
Abstract
Several states, including Israel and the United States, have put decapitation tactics, which seek to kill or capture leaders of terrorist organizations, at the forefront of their counterterrorism efforts. The vast majority of scholarly work on decapitation suggests, however, that leadership decapitation is ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst. Contrary to this conventional wisdom, leadership decapitation significantly increases the...
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Title
Targeting Top Terrorists: How Leadership Decapitation Contributes to Counterterrorism
Published Date
Apr 1, 2012
Journal
Volume
36
Issue
4
Pages
9 - 46
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