The Anti-Terrorism Strategy of the British Government

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Background of the study1

Problem statement2

Aims and objectives3

Conceptual framework4

Research questions4

Rationale of the study5

Ethical concerns5

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW7

The British government's strategy7

Asymmetric warfare10

Counterinsurgency warfare11

Successful insurgency pre-requisites12

Counterterrorism and counterinsurgency17

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY24

Research method24

Research approach25

Literature search26

CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION28

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION30

REFERENCES32

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background of the study

The war of terror may be understood as the war against terrorism. This is a worldwide campaign started by the United States of America and the United Kingdom and followed on the bandwagon by many countries, such as NATO and non-NATO countries. The term was coined by the US president George W. Bush for the first time. This was an attempt to launch the war against all the terrorist agencies that have been operational in the past. The war has been given many names such as World War III, The Long War or the War Against al-Qaeda. The concept of the war against terror, in fact, the term terrorism came into light with the September 11 events (Rand, 2009). This dates back to the year 2001 when the World Trade Centre in New York City was attacked by five series of bombs. This attack not only had repercussions for the US economy but also for the entire world. It was after this event that the masses of the world population who were previously unaware of the Al-Qaeda and their terrorism regime came to know about the agency and that it is the product of Taliban. The attack on the twin towers led the governments all over the world to believe that this was high time they should revise their legislation as it relates to anti-terrorism. The war was initially against Al-Qaeda but with the passage of time this has grown to manipulations (Faber, 2007).

The reason for the rise in the talk about terrorism is the result of the horror that the September 11 attacks caused. The attack caused about 3000 casualties. These included the 19 hijackers who died along with the other innocent souls. These were people who boarded the four fateful planes. Majority of these people were civilians, however, there were some military officials travelling the planes too. The Britain's war against terrorism is a long one and is governed by The Terrorism Act 2000. This was a new version of the Prevention of Terrorism Act which had been effective in the UK since the year 1974.Till date; the customer has taken many steps to safeguard the people of the UK as well as the rest of the world against ...