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The Strategy and Tactics of Revolutionary Terrorism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

H. Edward Price Jr
H. Edward Price Jr
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Western Carolina University
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There is an enormous social-scientific literature on the concepts of politicalviolence, internal war, and social conflict (e.g., Nieburg, 1969;Eckstein, 1964; Oberschall, 1973). These categories are intended toexclude conventional military conflicts between recognized states on theone hand and purely interpersonal violence on the other hand. But the theoretical treatment of one variety of violent social conflict is more limited, and it is this that I want to discuss: revolutionary terrorism. The use of terrorist tactics would seem to be more widespread today than in the past, if newspaper headlines are to be relied upon, and certainly public concern about it is greater. It is therefore incumbent upon social science to attempt to contribute to an understanding of it.

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Society and the Shape of Armies
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 1977 , pp. 52 - 66
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1977

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