Influencing Transnational Terrorist Organizations

<p>Since the attacks of September 11 2001 government agencies and scholars have combined to generate a wide range of studies and literature describing individual factors believed to influence the transnational terrorist threat against the United States. Given the fiscal reality of limited resources the United States cannot fully fund and implement a complete set of measures to counteract all the identified factors. The purpose of this study is to consolidate this array of factors; and more importantly to suggest a framework for analyzing the interactions and relative importance of each factor to support resource allocation decisions. A comprehensive literature review identified 13 factors having potential influence. These factors were then analyzed using an Influence Net approach. Utilizing notional interaction and influence assessments the suggested framework highlighted six of the factors with relatively greater potential to influence the terrorist threat. These six factors span the temporal spectrum from near-term impacts targeted against the existing terrorist threat to long-term strategies directed at influencing the next generation terrorist threat.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>