Shooting the Messenger: Diplomats Crushed by Wave of New Terrorism

Abstract

The security of diplomats is a challenging endeavor that requires constant evaluation and increased resources. This thesis compares and contrasts the Cold War and Post-Cold War ems to determine trends in attacks against diplomatic targets and identifies a dangerous evolution in terrorist tactics that combines suicide bombers with armed assaulters in which none of the attackers intend to survive. The Global Terrorism Database shows the number of attacks against diplomatic targets during the last 22 years of the Cold War(1970-l99l) are roughly equal to the number in the first 23 years post-Cold War (1992-2015).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 26, 2017
Accession Number
AD1033965

Entities

People

  • Justin M. Geinert

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Counter IED
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antiterrorism
  • Cold War
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Explosives
  • Governments
  • Improvised Explosive Devices
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Man Borne Improvised Explosive Devices
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Political Science
  • Security
  • Security Personnel
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • United States

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.