ABSTRACT
Much debate persists as to what kinds of activity constitute terrorism, existing along a sliding scale of varying instruments for low-intensity conflict. As a result, any effort to define with precision the nature of those operations aimed at countering such techniques are thus equally confused. But, if experience teaches one anything, it is that defeating terrorists requires a nation to do far more than merely “send either cops or soldiers to capture the evildoers” (Bohn, 2004, xiv). Within the context of military applications, traditional models of identify, target, and kill lack the requisite sophistication alone necessary to route out the disease with its symptoms. As such, the military’s responsibilities in counterterrorism involve a wide spectrum of both kinetic and nonkinetic activity.
