The History of Terrorism

[MaggieL]

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...

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...