The Use of Tactics by Terrorists
Terrorists use terror tactics because they ultimately have to as using
non violent techniques often doesn't work in bringing about their
aims. This is because in most cases, it is the only way they can be
heard and gain publicity for their cause or in some cases or more
extreme causes such as using terror to destabilize a country and cause
chaos in hope to undermine people's confidence in their government.
There are 9 reasons for terrorists using terror tactics. Firstly, it
is a method of gaining publicity for a cause or an organisation. An
example of this is the dockland bombings in London, February 6th 1998.
This attack on the British government by the IRA was to make the group
and the cause they were fighting for, in this case the discrimination
of the catholic communities in Ireland by the British government,
appear bigger and give them increased publicity around the world as
well as in the British government. This is also the case for the next
reason which is when small groups with little support use terror
tactics to appear bigger and more important than they really are. The
dockland bombings in London are also an example for another terror
tactic. This is using indiscriminate bombing to undermine the will and
morale of a community. This also links in with the tactic of using
terrorism to undermine people's confidence in their government and in
the forces of law and order to destabilize a country.
Terror tactics are also used in large wars to gain short term aims as
well as increasing government reaction and destabilization of a
government. An example of this is the dropping of atomic bombs on
Hiroshima, 6th August 1945. This was done by the American government
to bring the war to an end and as revenge for Pearl Harbour.
Kidnapping and assassinating representatives of a state is a terrorist
tactic. This tactic is used to get short term aims of publicity,
increasing government action and to appear bigger. This was used in
control, it is the fact that they go out there for the soul reason to
The SMART acronym, when considering goals, begins with being specific in ones overall objectives or what
goal. It is only us who have to walk the final path of attaining our
Determination, the strive to come out on top. The compulsion to reach your goal. For me, failure is not an option. Being adequate is not one either. You either have your game face on or you do not. There is no in between. My goal at the moment is to become a student at the Early College. From then on, I have multiple goals set up
Terror management theory (TMT) asserts that human beings have natural tendency for self-preservation if there is threat to one’s well–being (Greenberg, Solomon, & Pyszczynski, 1997). It notes that we are the cultural animals that pose self-awareness on the concept of past and future, as well as the understanding that one day we will die. We concern about our life and death but aware that it is unexpected by everything. The worse matter is that we become aware of our vulnerability and helplessness when facing death-related thoughts and ultimate demise (Pyszczynski & Greenberg, 1992). The inevitable death awareness or mortality salience provides a ground for experiencing the existential terror, which is the overwhelming concern of people’s mortality and existence. In order to avoid the continued existence of threats, people need faith in a relatively affirmative and plausive cultural worldview and meaning of life (Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1995). Cultural worldview is a perceptual construction in the society which explaining the origins of life and the existence of afterlife. We have to invest a set of cultural worldviews by ourselves that are able to provide meaning, stability and order to our lives and to offer the promise of death transcendence (Solomon, Greenberg, & Pyszczynski, 2004). On the other hand, we hold a belief that one is living up to the standards of value prescribed by that worldview and social norm shared by a group of people. This belief is derived by self-esteem of individual. We maintain the perception and confident that we are fulfilling the cultural prescriptions for value in the society and are thus eligible for some form of personal immortality (Landau & Greenberg, 2006). We Together with the assump...
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