How to Compare Counter Terrorism Groups
The United States spends more than $5 billion a year combating terrorism at home and abroad, and we're not the only nation with a substantial budget earmarked for this effort. Identifying nations that have moved counter-terrorism efforts from back burner to center stage--and the splinter groups they're monitoring--has become a Herculean effort, but it's the best way to keep track of this diversified underworld. To become more knowledgeable about anti-terrorism efforts around the world, compare the following categories for a better understanding of each.
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Compare counter-terrorism groups by the philosophical movements they're sworn to combat. Identify specific movements on today's landscape and match them with anti-terrorism efforts currently being undertaken against Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Abu Nidal Organization, Kahane Chai, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Abu Sayyaf Group, the Irish Republican Army, Basque Fatherland, FARC, Shining Path and other such extremist movements.
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Compare and contrast the growing number of counter-terrorism groups being established by nations to combat domestic terrorism in each. Group countries by commonalities to explore counter-insurgency efforts being made by forces in countries that include Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and England.
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Match counter-terrorism groups to the nations that sponsor them to break out their unique missions. Identify the Federal Bureau of Investigation and England's MI-5, for example, as agencies with a broad spectrum of missions, including drugs, intelligence, gang activity, counterfeiting and more, while counter-terrorism groups like Delta Force, the Army Ranger Wing, Israel's Mista'aravim, Germany's Beredskapstroppen and Naval Spetznatz cover less ground.
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Compare counter-terrorism groups by matching long-term objectives. To understand their efforts, pigeonhole organizations like Columbia cartels and the Mafia as groups heavily invested in the drug trade, Jihadists like Al Queda for waging holy war on non-Islamists and those seeking territorial domination at the expense of others, as is the case with Hamas and ethnic-cleansing efforts undertaken by terrorists in Bosnia and Rwanda.
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Compare counter-terrorism groups by tools and training. Split your search for accurate comparisons into physical and psychological counter terrorism. Categorize those focused on propaganda-busting, intelligence gathering, biological warfare, cyberspace and industrial sabotage as specialties that require tools and training of a highly specialized nature--you might be surprised to discover how many counter-terrorism agencies prioritize one or two major threats based on that nation's most serious problem, while giving others short shrift.
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