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Originally Posted by Griff
Okay, I've done no research on this. But I was wondering if we could come up with a working definition of terrorism and then argue about the history of it.
MaggieL posted this "World War III will be a guerilla information war with no division between civilian and military participation." --Marshall McLuhan on another thread. It sort of implies that the phenomena is new or at least increasing, but I'd argue that terrorism is tactically as common as symetrical warfare...
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Well, we can argue about the definition first, especially since infowar, psyops and terrorism aren't the same thing.
I think one fundamental problem here is that the "war on terror" is actually a codeword for "defending against islamofacism" to deflect spurious accusations of "racists" and "crusaders".
Infowar--at least on the scale it is practiced and with the importance has now...*is* new. Terrorism is not.
Of course, McLuhan died in 1980...