Amateurism : the new terrorist strategy

• Main Author: Justin, V. Hastings
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100001; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38624
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The attacker in the December 2014 Sydney hostage crisis was not a 'lone wolf', but an amateur, part of a growing trend that international terrorst groups have encouraged. This strategy works because it uses the amateurism itself to evade standard counterterrorist practices, expands potenti...