In chapter 5, White (2012) discusses the concepts of gender roles, tactics, and force multipliers as they are used in terrorism.  This particular discussion will focus on tactics as they have developed and transformed in recent years and decades.

During this chapter, White (2012) compares terrorist tactics to the tactics of the military. Using the information from this chapter, compare and contrast the military with terrorist organizations. How is terrorism different from war?  What are the objectives of war versus those of terrorism (consider this both in the general sense and specifically as it relates to our current conflict with extremism of all ideologies)? Are the actions of war dynamically different from those that can be found in terrorist plots and incidents? What are some of the similarities differences in the weapons that are used in terrorism versus war? And finally, is it appropriate to call our current conflict the war on terror? Why or why not?

White, J. R. (2012). Terrorism and homeland security (7th ed). Wadsworth Publishing Company. Belmont, CA.