The lone wolf terrorist is hard for detection and defense. Therefore, the police and an intelligence community faces many challenges. The relevant security authorities have managed to penetrate terrorism that are planned and organized by groups or
A Separate Peace, Unit Test Hamza Eldohiri The story “A Separate Peace”, written by John Knowles, was written at the time and takes place during World War II when battles and conflicts amongst nations were evident. Each nation involved struggled and fought their hardest in order to satisfy the good of their nation. Not only is the setting in the story taking place during this time of quarrel, the story also demonstrates areas of self-conflict and an internal battle throughout. The characters in “A Separate Peace”, are described as experiencing this self-conflicting, internal battle. Gene (also the narrator) is specifically depicted as he goes through his battle in life.
The potential global issue that is raised within this text is the theoretical Interstate war between the rogue state North Korea and the United States caused by the weapons of mass destruction being developed by North Korea and their new capability to reach the USA due to the successful miniaturization of the war heads and the ability to apply them to intercontinental ballistic missiles. For example when the author, Richard. N. Haase, writes that the reasons for the meeting between the CIA and the President is: ‘North Korea has succeeded in making a nuclear bomb small enough to fit inside the tip of an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the continental United States.’ This theoretical war has recently become more and more of a
Sometimes internal wars can be fought just as vehemently and result in as many casualties as an external war. John Knowles shows us this in his novel, A Separate Peace. During the time of this story, WW2 rages on, whilst the main character, Gene Forrester, battles his own internal conflicts just as violently. From the beginning, you can see that the entire novel is revolved around the happenings of World War 2.
”(Anderson). Not only is law enforcement able to track down the terrorists, but now they can find and arrest those who finance their operations. Source four goes into more detail on previse attempts of terrorism in the United States that have been foiled by the Patriot Act up to 2010. The infographic highlights how the Patriot Act has prevented Richard Reid, Jose Padilla, the Lackawanna Six, Iyman Faris, the Virginia Jihad Network, Nuradin M. Abdi, Dhiren Barot, James Elshafay, Shahawar Martin Sira, Yassin Aref, Mohammad Hossain, Umer Hayat, Hamid Hayat, Kevin James, Michael C. Reynolds, Syed Haris
However, with the right intelligence, this terrorist plot may be prevented. HUMINT, SIGINT, and OSINT data collection programs will be ideal to prevent this domestic terrorist event. With some involvement of ODNI and NRO, the DHS and the DOJ are the main IC members who will be collecting such data. The DHS’s CBP, TSA, ICE, and USCIS will be responsible in collecting data of potential terrorist member travel into the US. The DOJ’s FBI serves as both an intelligence and law enforcement agency as well as charge with dissecting any national and transnational networks that can potentially harm the US.
Few organizations have garnered as much fascination, fear, and attention in the realm of global security and terrorism as Al-Qaeda. This paper will cover the group's origins, purpose and ideologies, organizational structure, successes and failures, and prospects to assess its ability to achieve its ideological goals given its military capabilities. We will identify two eras of Al Qaeda: pre-9/11 and post-9/11, with both eras having distinct organizational structures and threats. Given their current resources, Al Qaeda’s resources may not be enough to achieve their ideological goals of the defeat of the United States and the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia law. However, the current decentralized organizational structure and the number
Human beings are all individually incredibly unique. This uniqueness is apparent in every experience of a person’s life, but it is the cycle of these unique experiences that connects all human beings. This cycle is defined as the human condition. Furthermore, this cycle is a series of inevitable life aspects that makes up a human being; two of the most obvious being growth and conflict. Within the human condition, growth cannot exist without conflict and conflict cannot exist without growth.
In fact, al Qaeda spent a few years planning and preparing its members to successfully carry out the 9/11 attacks (Riedel, 2008). In order for al Qaeda to be able to effectively plan and prepare for its attacks, its organizational structure has become very well organized so that its member can have different specific missions that contribute to the overall goal of the organization. Moreover, al Qaeda has a wide range of safe havens in places located within Somalia, Indonesia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen (U.S. Department of State, n.d.). These safe havens allows al Qaeda’s members to effectively plan and prepare for their terrorist attacks without being disrupted by authorities. Moreover, al Qaeda has many partnerships with other terrorist organizations in different parts of the world (Riedel, 2008).
Conflict Theory American society today is made up of all three of the theories. In my opinion, these theories all thrive off each other as a whole. I feel that the chain is something like this, Symbolic Interactionism, as well as Functionalism, lead into Conflict Theory. However, I feel that Conflict Theory is by far the largest component American society is made from, here is why! First I would like to touch on Symbolic Interactionism, symbols we attach value or meaning.
In 1980 the most feared terrorist group came into play. The Haqqani Network is a militant, non-governmental, family-run organization from South-Asia and is one of the reasons for the United States’ and Pakistan’s failing relationship. The Haqqani network is one of the most feared terrorist organisations for their affiliations with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, two of the most well- known terrorist groups. This group uses fear to intimidate and persuade the public to accept their ideologies through mass suicide bombings, kidnappings, car and infrastructure bombings. This is why the Haqqani Network is considered as a terrorist organization.
“The Intelligence Community was still configured to fight a Cold War enemy; it had not yet evolved to understand a networked, stealthy, and very deadly adversary.” (Jensen, 21) Since the attacks on 9/11 many agencies within the Intelligence community have realigned the missions and organizational structures. Their focus on working traditional crimes has been replaced by terrorism matters.
When terrorist organizations experience times with no real action it can create a sense of vulnerability (Locicero & Sinclair, 2008). Leaders must keep the group in a state of readiness and recognize how evil the enemy really is and what type of a threat they can be, not just to the organization, but the overall mission as well (Locicero & Sinclair, 2008). Leaders will succeed by planning the mission and putting their plans and followers into constant action (Locicero & Sinclair, 2008). By keeping their followers busy with the mission at hand leaders will maintain and increase in number of followers to the
The world is currently a more dangerous place than it was 40 or 50 years ago because of the rise in power of non-state actors relative to states and their level of ambiguity, difficulty to predict, penetrate, and contain. This is highlighted by the recent rise of power in ISIL and its terrorism. These non-state actors, including ISIL, pose as multiple and challenging threats to national, international, and human security. The threat of terrorism can never be ignored, taken lightly, or downplayed. Not only does terrorism incite fear and panic, it is done in such a way to cause governments to react exactly like non-state actors wish them to act.
The fields of knowledge that study the individuals and society can be defined as social science, which has been referred as an umbrella term which consists of the outside of nature science. The origins of ancient philosophy is the beginning of social science history, as it was all considered as the same, there were no differentiation between poetry, history or political studies and mathematics. Adding on, the social science term includes either general or specific sciences of society. To specify, the general science study’s the disciplines that are outside of arts and noble science.
