ABSTRACT
Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 10 What Is Terrorism? ........................................................................................................................ 10 Who becomes a Terrorist? ............................................................................................................ 11 Terrorist Motivations .................................................................................................................... 11 Terrorist Behavior .......................................................................................................................... 12 Terrorism’s Effectiveness ............................................................................................................. 13 Terrorism’s Target ......................................................................................................................... 16 Soft Target Violence: A Collective Twenty-First Century Black Swan ................................... 16 The Internet as a Tool.................................................................................................................... 18 Soft Targeting Motivations .......................................................................................................... 19 Our Unique Vulnerability ............................................................................................................ 21 What Do We Most Fear? ...............................................................................................................23 How Should We Respond? .......................................................................................................... 24 References ......................................................................................................................................25
