A term that is loaded with negative and derogatory meanings.
What is a pejorative term?
100
The subjective interpretation people give to events or physical objects.
What is meaning?
100
The basic unit of traditional terrorist organizations.
What is a cell?
100
Visual, audible, or written packages used to present the news.
What are news frames?
100
A method of increasing striking power without increasing the number of combat troops in a military unit.
What is a force multiplier?
200
A system developed by the U.S. Army to define low-intensity conflict, mid-level wars, and wars of mass destruction.
What is the spectrum of conflict?
200
A social science theory that assumes human beings take action based on the subjective meanings they attribute to social settings.
What is theory of action?
200
A military term that describes the people actually carrying out terrorist activity in an organizational hierarchy.
What is an active cadre?
200
Describing the belief that modernism has ended.
What is postmodern?
200
Enhanced forms of bacteria that may be countered by antibiotics.
What are bacterial weapons?
300
A definition of terrorism that involves three parts: (1) use of force, (2) against innocent people, (3) for political purposes.
What is the simple definition?
300
The social space ocupied by a structure and the direction it moves.
What is social geometry?
300
Groups of cells in a terrorist or guerilla organization.
What is a column?
300
The public's understanding of the media and the way stories are presented.
What is critical media consciousness?
300
Terrorism that exists inside a political entity.
What is endemic terrorism?
400
Classification of an issue by looking at different types.
What is a typology?
400
A Greek word used to indicate the theological end of time.
What is eschatology?
400
A group that shelters, supports, and inspires smaller terrorist groups.
What is an umbrella?
400
A law ensuring access to governmental records.
What is the Freedom of Information Act? (or What is the FOI?)
400
The willingness of individuals to sacrifice their lives to benefit their primary reference group such as family, military unit, ethnic group, or country.
What is altruistic suicide?
500
Governmental actions that suppress freedom.
What is repression?
500
One network fighting another network.
What is netwar?
500
A system of exchanging money based on trust relationships between money dealers.