Chapter Six: Current terrorist strategies In this moderp era, becausep most of the targeted western territories have managed to build strong security's and intelligence systems and structures inland, at the borders and overseas, it has become increasingly difficult for the terrorist organizations (enemies outside) to break into inland territories from outside to launch punitive lethal attacks on citizens and the public, with that they have shifted in tactics, with a significant increase in amounts of worrisome solo attacks from within. The strategy they have devised now is like the military tactics used by the separatist General Emilio Mola in the battle of the Spanish Civil War In October 1936. In this, his faction besieged Madrid with four columns of troops. Mola claimed he had additional troops within the city which he referred to as his “fifth column” intent on undermining the loyalist government from within. The claim was reported in the New York Times like this: “Police last night began a house-to-house search for rebels in Madrid. . . Orders for these raids apparently were instigated by a recent broadcast over the rebel radio station by General Emilio Mola. He stated he was counting on four columns of troops outside Madrid and a “fifth column” of persons hiding within the city who will join the invaders as soon as they entered the capital.” [8] …show more content…
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