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Targeting Top Terrorists: How Leadership Decapitation Contributes to Counterterrorism

Targeting Top Terrorists: How Leadership Decapitation Contributes to Counterterrorism

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Targeting Top Terrorists: How Leadership Decapitation Contributes to Counterterrorism

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Targeting Top Terrorists: How Leadership Decapitation Contributes to Counterterrorism

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One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA: MIT Press

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International security, 2012-04, Vol.36 (4), p.9-46

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English

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One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA: MIT Press

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Several states, including Israel and the United States, have put decapitation tactics, which seek to kill or capture leaders of terrorist organizations, at the forefront of their counterterrorism efforts. The vast majority of scholarly work on decapitation suggests, however, that leadership decapitation is ineffective at best and counterproductive...

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Targeting Top Terrorists: How Leadership Decapitation Contributes to Counterterrorism

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1728651443

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1728651443

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0162-2889

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1531-4804

DOI

10.1162/isec_a_00075

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