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Terrorism - ✔✔-The international community has failed to come up with a single agreed
upon definition of terrorism.
-This has impeded treaty development and other collaborative efforts to combat terrorism
-All while the scope and impact of terrorism has grown.
-Terrorism is best understood as an illegal form of political violence carried out by individuals,
NGOs, or covert govt agents or units that specifically targets civilians using clandestine methods
-Transnational terrorism consists of transnational terrorist activities carried out by globally
networked actors operating covertly across multiple national borders simultaneously
Causes of Terrorism - ✔✔-The clash between Western liberalism and other views of politics,
society, and economic activity
-State- or societal-level analysis: Few (or no) available nonviolent options for the expression of
political views
-Individual level: Analyze the psychology and motivation of terrorists themselves
-Pragmatic level: Terrorism occurs because, like war, it can be effective
Sources of Terrorism - ✔✔-State-Sponsored Terrorism: Terrorism sponsored by nation-
states. In general, state-sponsored terrorism is associated with providing material support
and/or sanctuary to terrorist or paramilitary organizations.
-Transnational Terrorism: Carried out either across national borders or by groups that operate
in more than one country.
-Spotlight: ISIS
At least _______ people have died due to direct war violence, including armed forces on all
sides of the conflicts, contractors, civilians, journalists, and humanitarian workers -
✔✔800,000. It is likely that many times more have died indirectly in these wars, due to
malnutrition, damaged infrastructure, and environmental degradation.
,Over _______ civilians have been killed in direct violence by all parties to these conflicts. -
✔✔335,000
Over _____ US soldiers have died in the wars. - ✔✔7,000.
-We do not know the full extent of how many US service members returning from these wars
became injured or ill while deployed.
-Many deaths and injuries among US contractors have not been reported as required by law,
but it is likely that approximately 8,000 have been killed
21 million _______, _____, _______, _____ people are living as __________ and ________, in
grossly inadequate conditions. - ✔✔Afghan, Iraqi, Pakistani, and Syrian
war refugees and internally displaced persons
The US government is conducting counterterror activities in ___ countries, vastly expanding this
war across the globe - ✔✔80
-The wars have been accompanied by erosions in civil liberties and human rights at home and
abroad.
-The human and economic costs of these wars will continue for decades with some costs, such
as the financial costs of US veterans' care, not peaking until mid-century
US government funding of reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan has totaled over
__________. - ✔✔$199 billion
Most of those funds have gone towards arming security forces in both countries. Much of the
money allocated to humanitarian relief and rebuilding civil society has been lost to fraud,
waste, and abuse.
The cost of the Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Syria wars totals about __________. -
✔✔$6.4 trillion. This does not include future interest costs on borrowing for the wars, which
will add an estimated $8 trillion in the next 40 years.
, -The ripple effects on the US economy have also been significant, including job loss and interest
rate increases.
-Both Iraq and Afghanistan continue to rank extremely low in global studies of political
freedom.
-Women in Iraq and Afghanistan are excluded from political power and experience high rates of
unemployment and war widowhood.
The US has spent roughly __________ on war since 2011, or __________ annually. - ✔✔$6.2
Trillion, $326 Billion
In 2019, there were ___ terrorist attacks, killing ___ people in the United States. - ✔✔64, 51
Terrorism in the United States continued to be characterized by diverse, sometimes complex,
and often ambiguous ideological influences, typically without clear ties to formal, named
organizations.
Perpetrators of the 10 lethal terrorist attacks in the United States in 2019 included these
groups: - ✔✔white supremacists/nationalists, anti-Semitic extremists linked to the Black
Hebrew Israelite movement, an al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula operative, and a conspiracy
theory extremist.
Vast majority of terrorist attacks in the United States in 2019 were _______ (84%, excluding
perpetrator deaths), and these attacks were also motivated by diverse ideological influences,
including - ✔✔non-lethal
anti- fascist, anti-government, anti-LGBT, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic, anti-white, left-wing, pro-
choice, and white supremacist/nationalist extremism.
Top FOUR perpetrators of terror attacks on US soil between 2015-2019 - ✔✔1) White
Supremacist/Nationalist Groups: 34 attacks
2) Anti-Muslim extremists: 32 attacks
3) Jihadi Inspired Extremists: 23 attacks
4) Pro-Trump Extremists: 16 attacks
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