What is Terrorism? According to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary it is defined as “violence committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands.” If one were to look at it that way then one could ask, who are the terrorists? Is everyone that goes to war a terrorist? When a B-52 bomber flies over a village and dozens of bombs fall into the village, the villagers are going to be terrified. Is that terrorism? There is an old saying that goes like this “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” The US Department of Defense gets around that saying by making their own definition of the word terrorism: “The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence against individuals or property to coerce or intimidate governments or societies, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives.” If o
ne was part of Jihad, then the Americans are the terrorists, but to the Americans, the Muslims are the terrorists. There are many types of terrorism today, all having their own tactics and reasons.
The first type of terrorism is Nationalist terrorism. This is when a country does not view themselves as a terrorist state. They believe that they were fighting a patriotic war and adopted the tactics of the anarchist. An example of a country that used National Terrorism is Russia in the Russian Revolution. A group in Russia called The People’s Will was trying to reform Russian from the inside by using guerrilla tactics to make the people of Russia think the way they did. The People’s Will came about in the 1870’s and it faced off against the church, police, and the military. They went after the Czar and the Chief of Police and killed the both. The People’s Will ended their own reign however,
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