MAKING COUNTER TERRORISM BETTER

MAKING COUNTER TERRORISM BETTER

Abstract.

The researcher, in his efforts to get to the bottom of making counterterrorism better factors in four variables that include; identifying terrorists and terrorist organizations, affects the war on terrorism. Destroying terrorists’ organization and their organizations affects the war on terrorism, denying sponsorship, sanctuary and, support helps improve the war on terrorism and diminishing the underlying conditions that brood Terrorism affects the war on terrorism. Terrorism has been a disturbing reality in this modern generation — the touches how the extent of terrorism and how it started. The paper further assumes both exclusion and inclusion research parameters that are attached to the nature of the study. The researcher also employed a research string that is the critical words for the thematic search. Specific search strings were used keenly on the effects the identifying terrorist organizations. Destroying terrorist’s organization and their organizations affect the war on terrorism, denying sponsorship, sanctuary and, support helps improve the war on terrorism and diminishing the underlying conditions that brood Terrorism, affects counterterrorism. The study found out that the variables that were looked into effect counterterrorism significantly. The process employed to interpret and report findings is by looking into the past researches done and finally explain them in detail before the conclusion.

Objective

Making counterterrorism better

Specific objectives

To find out the extent of how identifying terrorists and terrorist organizations affect the war on terrorism.

To establish how destroying terrorist organization and their organizations affect the war on terrorism.

To establish how denying sponsorship, sanctuary, and support helps improve the war on terrorism.

To establish how diminishing the underlying conditions that brood Terrorism affects the war on terrorism.

Research question

How identifying terrorists and terrorist organizations affect the war on terrorism.

How destroying terrorist organization and their organizations affects the war on terrorism.

How denying sponsorship, sanctuary, and support helps improve the war on terrorism.

How diminishing the underlying conditions that brood Terrorism affects the war on terrorism.

Hypothesis

H1. Identifying terrorists and terrorist organization affect the war on terrorism significantly.

H1. Destroying terrorists organization and their organizations affects the war on terrorism significantly.

H1. Denying sponsorship, sanctuary, and support helps improve the war on terrorism significantly.

H1. Diminishing the underlying conditions that brood Terrorism affects the war on terrorism significantly.

LITERATURE REVIEW

Introduction

Terrorism is extracted from the Latin word ‘terrere,’ which means to frighten. Counterterrorism or antiterrorism consolidates the efforts of the government strategy, military techniques and tactics, business law enforcement, and the intelligence agency in place to wage war and stop corruption (Hellmuth, 2018). This is a strategy employed by the government to eliminate terrorism within the country, state or nation. This is done to secure the interest of the citizen in the respective region or society (Hellmuth, 2018). They achieve this by mismatching and disassociating their power to cripple their ambitions towards employing violence to factor in fear. They further use those as mentioned above to make the state or the government react in tandem with the terrorism goals.

The first account in History of Terrorism dates to the times when the Roman Empire employed violence that included crucifixion of people to the point where it was a full-scale genocide to coerce nations and personalities and nations to be submitted to their will (Erick, 2010). Withal, between 1793-1794 the French revolution killed more than twenty-thousand people with the use of guillotine over a short period. Shifting our focus to the modern times; an example of horrific terrorism employed by the state factors in Nazi Germany, communist China within the Mao period, Stalin Soviet Union among other totalitarians and dictators period (Erick, 2010).

Modern-day Terrorism

The employment of fear as a tool of choice towards generating fear has been vastly employed by diverse states and governments (Erick, 2010).  Anarchist viewed societies to be roped by various conventions and turned to use terror to destroy these formidable movements. The main objective of this move by the government to conceal the fact that they undermine the laws and regulations that they have set in place and claimed that they respected. To attain the disproportional response of the state, terrorist aims at the state and other diverse ranking officials (Erick, 2010). Following this manner, excessive force that is employed by the authorities will likely polarize the activists in the society, and hence, an uprising will follow. The weapon of choice that the former terrorist employed was dynamite, and more often, it ended up killing the terrorist in the act.  The next age of terrorism this preceded those mentioned above was the ‘Golden Age Assassination,’ which colonized the significant proportion of the 1890s into the 1940s. The next wave of terrorism after the Golden Age Assassination was the anti-colonial wave. The anti-colonial wave begun from the time when the treaty of Versailles that saw the termination of the First World War (Erick, 2010). This wave (third) saw many more corporations in the fight against counter Terrorism. The United Nations factored in conventions that prohibited or outlawed hostage-taking, hijacking and financing terrorism.

Islam is at the Centre of a religious wave of ‘terrorism.’ For instance, Afghanistan, the soviet attack of Afghanistan, and the new century of Islamism, has towered high over the recent past (Macleod, 2010). The religious wave is synonymous with suicidal terrorist attacks on the side of the French troopers in Lebanon and that of the United States Marine

Identifying terrorist organizations and terrorist

A most proverbial maxim when it comes to warfare is ‘understand your enemy.’ Indeed, the knowledge and the understanding of terrorist activities are not delved deep in ultimately (Cities, War, and Terrorism in History and Theory,” n.d). Therefore the law enforcement and the government agency that handles the whole matter of terrorism should dig deeper to be in the know of the terrorist and their organization, understand their control and command and uphold the infrastructure set in place (Kraft & Marks, 2016). Withal, they should look into supporting their course by furnishing them with enough resources. Furthermore, the agencies and the bodies set in place should be able to map and control the terrorism organizations (Kraft & Marks, 2016). This will help to determine where to set the forces strategically and further point out terrorist air, ground, and maritime activities. They further unravel terrorist WMD strength; this includes threats against agriculture, food security, and bioterrorism threats.

Destroy terrorism and their organizations.

Once the organization in charge of antiterrorism points out where the organization and terrorists are hiding, all tools should be marshaled towards dismantling, disrupting, and eventually destroying their chances in executing terror and subsequently disseminating their power to perform acts of terror (Kraft & Marks, 2016). This includes launching attacking their sanctuaries, control, command, and communication that factors in finance, communication, and material support (Kraft & Marks, 2016).

Deny Support, Sanctuary and, Sponsorship to the terrorists

The details mentioned above that include support, sanctuary, and sponsorship to the terrorist are significant elements that enable the unwanted the sects to gain, exist, plan, strengthen and, carry forth attacks more often as they wish.  (“National Strategy for combating Terrorism,” 2003). Those who harbor the terrorist or offer them support are accomplices and hence fall in the same category. If this is achieved, the terrorists are suffocated their essential access to equipment, training, territory, unimpeded transit. If this is successfully carried forth, it will weaken the organizations of terrorists and their ability to carry out their operations (Reveron & Murer, 2013).

Strengthen the weak nations

There many countries that can fight terrorism, but they lack the resources to do so.  For instance, some governments are devoid of the legal framework, technical capabilities in waging war against terrorism and training (Shanahan, 2005).

Diminishing the underlying conditions that brood terrorism

Coming up with collective efforts towards decreasing what makes terrorism to grow more powerfully helps improves the Fight against Terrorism (Sylves, 2017). Many countries and people living within the poverty line, social enfranchisement, deprivation, and perpetual political conflicts do not, in a way, justify the use of terror (Sylves, 2017). Nevertheless, many groups of terrorists utilize this condition to exploit this condition to achieve their objectives or purposes.

Conclusion

The empirical research from diverse authors, reports, and studies done in the recent past, it is evident that to overcome terrorism, all the bodies within the government and internationally have to weigh in and have strategies put in place and subsequently executed to the end. The researcher found out that in improving the war on terrorism, the following elements are of necessity; identifying terrorist organizations, destroying the terrorist organizations, and their organizations affect the war on terrorism. Nevertheless, denying sponsorship, sanctuary, and support helps improve the war on terrorism, and diminishing the underlying conditions that brood terrorism affects counterterrorism affects the making of positively better counterterrorism.

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