Twenty years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, followed by the attacks in Madrid in 2004, London in 2005, Paris in January and November 2015, Islamism has established itself as the main terrorist threat of the 21st century.
That hasn't always been the case, points out John A. Lynn in
Another War.
History and nature of terrorism
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The author defines terrorism as the use of violence against helpless victims that instills fear or provokes outrage, to promote political, social or cultural objectives.
A broad definition from which John A. Lynn distinguishes six degrees of terrorism: state, military, social, criminal, radical by groups, and radical by individuals.
Mao Zedong's Chinese Cultural Revolution is thus identified as state terrorism, directed against its own
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