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F a l l 2 0 1 6

E X A M I N I N G T E R R O R I S T G R O U P S

G e o r g e M a s o n U n i v e r s i t y

School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs

B I O D 7 2 2

Professor: C harl es P. Blair

D R A F T 1

“To study anything properly, one must put aside ethical judgements.” Jacques Ellul 2

OVERVIEW

Welcome to BIOD 722: “Examining Terrorist Groups.”

Weekly topics and related items begin on the following pages. Please note:

Each week’s class summary possesses the table above. The table’s first row indicates the course’s 14 weekly classes; the second row offers related hyperlinks; row three indicates class dates (“class” due dates are treated as if class takes place on Thursdays); row four summarizes weekly content; graded responsibilities are found in row five; and row six offers hyperlinks to this document’s appendices.

The syllabus is subject to change. You will be notified of relevant alterations in the “Syllabus” section of Blackboard.

Announcements take place via Blackboard only. You are responsible for being aware of all the information contained in announcements.

Four appendices appear at the end of the syllabus. Read them thoroughly and remain mindful of their requirements; it is your responsibility to understand and satisfy these obligations. They are as follows:

1 BIOD 722: DRAFT Syllabus. Last update: 04/11/2016

2 Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (Vintage Books: New York, 1965), p. 32.

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Ethno, FLE

FLE FRE FRE Anarchy / Tech

Anarchy / Tech

Attacks: In Action

Attacks: In Action

Violent Islamists

Violent Islamists

Religious Cults

5th Wave? Conclusion

Prompt I Prompt II Prompt III Midterm Prompt IV Prompt V Final

Appendix I: Course Description Appendix II: Materials, Assignments, and Grading Appendix III: Important Numbers Appendix IV: University Policies

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Appendix I: Course Description

Appendix II: Course Materials, Assignments & Grading Metrics

Appendix III: Instructor Information and Important Numbers

Appendix IV: University Policies

In a Nut Shell: Course Overview:

Week/Date Topics Assignments

Week 1: September 3 Course Overview; Definitions, Classifications, History of Terrorism, Far-Left Extremism (FLE)

NA (Extra Credit is available, see

below)

Week 2: September 10 Ethno-Nationalist / Separatist, FLE continued, Group Factors

Prompt I (due 09/10*)

Week 3: September 17 FLE continued, Group Factors continued Prompt II (due 09/17*)

Week 4: September 24 Far-Right Extremism (FRE) NA

Week 5: October 1 FRE Continued, Group Factors continued Prompt III (due 10/01*)

Week 6: October 8 Anti-Technology and Neo-Anarchist Extremism (ATNAE): Ideological Evolution

NA

Week 7: October 15 ATNAE Continued: Current and Emerging Ideologies, Group Structures, Targeting and other Attack Modalities

NA

Week 8: October 22 Attack Modalities in Action Midterm (due10/22)

Week 9: October 29 Attack Modalities in Action NA

Week 10: November 5 Violent Islamists Prompt IV (due 11/05*)

Week 11: November 12 Violent Islamists and Soldiers of Zion NA

Week 12: November 19 Religious Cults Prompt V (due 11/19*)

Week 13: December 3 The Fifth Wave of Terrorism? NA

Week 14: December 10 Conclusion Final (due 12/14*)

*Due no later than 7 p.m. EST. Post to > Blackboard > Discussion Forum.

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Attacks: In Action

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WEEK 1 – September 3, 2015

T O P I C S :

INTRODUCTIONS; COURSE OVERVIEW; DEFINITIONS & CLASSIFICATIONS; HISTORY OF TERRORISM I; FAR-LEFT EXTREMISM (FLE)

O v e r v i e w :

Week one focuses on general introductions and a detailed overview of the course. Related readings include an overview of terrorism (Hoffman readings) and salient variants of far-left extremism (FLE) – e.g., the Rosebraugh readings). Begin by viewing the two lectures, then conduct the readings in the order they appear. Finally, watch the video – “100 Year of Terrorism.”

O b j e c t i v e s :

By the end of this module you will be able to:

Assimilate the content and navigation of the course syllabus.

Comprehend how to navigate Blackboard vis-à-vis this course.

Become acquainted with weekly topics and requirements, including writing, reading and viewing assignments (e.g., replies to Prompts); the midterm; course final; and grading metrics.

Understand key elements of the Environmental Liberation Front (ELF).

R e m i n d e r s / E x t r a - C r e d i t O p p o r t u n i t i e s :

Prompt I: due next week (no later than 7 p.m., 09/10). See Week 2 for directions.

For two extra-credit points, post your Bio on Blackboard (no later than 7 p.m. Thursday 9/3. See Blackboard > Discussion Board.

For one extra-credit point (due no later than 7 p.m. Thursday 9/10), post a question to Blackboard’s Discussion Forum based on the following parameters:

Professor Sayed Hassan Hussaini (Akhlaq), a Shia’ religious scholar (Hujjatu l-Islām wa l-Muslimīn) – has agreed to guest lecture. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from an objective scholar of Islam – one born in Afghanistan, subsequently living and studying in Iran. I encourage you to read Dr. Hassan’s recent journal article (see Blackboard > Forum Discussion > Blair Post > Attachment) and ask a brief question. While he won’t be able to get to all the questions, your input will help guide his lecture (your one point extra-credit question is not dependent on its ultimate use by Dr. Hassan). Obviously, only topical questions meet this

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Attacks: In Action

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requirement; however, feel free to posit any relevant query (e.g., “Is Islam inherently violent?” “What does jihad really mean?” “How much does theology drive Iran’s leaders?” “How ideologically compatible are Iran’s leaders and other certain (fill in the blank) terrorist group(s)?” Etc. I’ve asked him some pretty blunt / relatively ridiculous questions; he patiently answers them. Again, post to Blackboard’s Discussion Forum no later than 7 p.m. 9/10.

G r a d e d a s s i g n m e n t s :

NA

L e c t u r e s :

Lecture 1.1: Bearings / Getting Started

Course Elements / Succeeding in this Course

R e a d i n g s :

R E Q U I R E D

David C. Rapoport, “The Four Waves of Modern Terrorism, Anthropoetics 8, no. 1 (Spring / Summer 2002).

Available on > Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 1 > Readings

Also available at: http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0801/terror.htm

Note: Consult this visual / interactive overview of Rapoport’s “Four Waves:” https://prezi.com/j5cptnaaxcsf/the-four-waves-of-terrorism-by-david-c-rapoport-2004/

“Assessing Terrorist Motivations for Attacking Critical Infrastructure,” 14-17 and 95-98.

Available at: https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/341566.pdf

Hoffman, Inside Terrorism, ix – 41. (Required text)

Rosebraugh, Burning Rage of a Dying Planet, ix-71. (Required text)

V i d e o :

100 Years of Terrorism (46 minutes)

http://search.alexanderstreet.com.mutex.gmu.edu/view/work/1796413

http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0801/terror.htm

https://prezi.com/j5cptnaaxcsf/the-four-waves-of-terrorism-by-david-c-rapoport-2004/

https://prezi.com/j5cptnaaxcsf/the-four-waves-of-terrorism-by-david-c-rapoport-2004/

https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/341566.pdf


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WEEK 2 – September 10, 2015

T O P I C S :

HISTORY OF TERRORISM II; ETHNO-NATIONALIST / SEPERATIST GROUPS; FLE II;

DEFINITIONS; AND CONTEXTUALIZATION (GROUP FACTORS)

O v e r v i e w :

This week we continue with an overview of terrorism. Addressed as well are ethno-nationalist / separatist groups. We continue our exploration of FLE. We also begin our exploration of VNSA Group Factors – a central element of this course.

O b j e c t i v e s :

By the end of this module you will be able to:

Delineate salient violent ethno-nationalist groups and FLE

Recognize, delineate, and summarize preliminary internal VNSA Group Factors

R e m i n d e r ( s ) :

Prompt I (see below) is due no later than 7 p.m. 09/10 (EST). Post on Blackboard > Discussion Forum > Prompt 1

L e c t u r e :

“Group Factors 1”

N O T E : O r d e r o f M a t e r i a l

The most effective way to handle this week’s material is as follows:

First: Look at Prompt 1 below. At this stage it probably won’t make much sense; however, it will be more intelligible after conducting steps 2-6 below.

Second: Read “Assessing Terrorist Motivations for Attacking Critical Infrastructure” (see Readings below).

Third: Familiarize yourself with, “VNSA Group Factors Internal” (see Readings below).

Fourth: View the Lecture: “Group Factors 1.”

Fifth: Read the Hoffman and Rosebraugh (see Readings below)

Sixth: (Optional) Scan “Selected VNSA Incidents” paying close attention to “Ideology” and “Organization Structure.” (See Readings below).

Seventh: Watch the PLO video (see Video below).

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Finally, Contemplate and compose your response to Prompt 1. (Return to Prompt 1 below).

R e q u i r e d R e a d i n g s :

“Assessing Terrorist Motivations for Attacking Critical Infrastructure:”

20-45 (Group Factors), 64-67 (FLNC) and 74-78 (MILF). https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/341566.pdf

VNSA Group Factors Internal (See Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 2 > Readings)

Hoffman, Inside Terrorism, 41-80. (Required text)

Rosebraugh, Burning Rage of a Dying Planet, 72-131 (Required text)

“ChukakuHa,” in “Assessing Terrorist Motivations for Attacking Critical Infrastructure,” 67-74.


R e c o m m e n d e d R e a d i n g :

Skim the following reading; pay special attention to “Ideology” and “Organizational Structure” – both being internal VNSA Group Factors).

“Selected VNSA Incidents: Factors and Modalities” (See Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 2 > Readings)

V i d e o s :

The PLO (26 minutes) http://search.alexanderstreet.com.mutex.gmu.edu/view/work/1791902

A s s i g n m e n t :

PROMPT I:

Based on the readings / video so far, and using the “VNSA Group Factors” reading and lecture (see above) as a guide, complete the following:

Pick any two groups explored so far. Delineate and illustrate the following VNSA Group Factors for each:

Ideology. Include the following sub-factors: “World View” and “Grand Strategy” and, if discernable, “Group Norms.”

Organizational Structure. When possible, include the following sub-factors: 1) how the groups’ structure might look in paper; 2) Group Size (overall or at various points in the VNSA’s organizational lifecycle); 3) Degree of Centralization; 4) other salient Organizational Structure sub-factors (word count allowing).

Directions and More:





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Grade: Your response represents five (5) percent of your final grade. Grading metrics for Prompts responses are available here.

Length: ~500 words (no more than 550 and no less than 450).

Due: No later than 09/10 by 7 p.m. EST

Submission: Post to: Blackboard > Discussion Board > Prompt 1

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WEEK 3: September 17, 2015

T O P I C S :

HISTORY OF TERRORISM CONTINUED; FLE CONTINUED, GROUP FACTORS CONTINUED

O v e r v i e w :

We continue our ongoing exploration of the history of VNSA (Hoffman), and key modern FLE VNSA (i.e., ELF and the Animal Liberation Front – ALF). Additionally we continue to work with Group Factors. I recommend you handle this week in the following order:

1. Listen to the lecture located on Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 3 > Prompt II: “Prompt II & General Update.”

2. Take an initial look at the written instructions for Prompt II: Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 3 > Prompt II.

3. Read Rosebraugh.

4. Read the article by Flukiger on ALF.

5. Watch the video: “If a Tree Falls: The Story of the Earth Liberation Front.”

6. (Optional) I highly recommend watching the video: “Your Mommy Kills Animals.”

7. Read Hoffman.

8. Familiarize yourself with the instructions and lecture for Prompt II (mentioned above).

9. Construct your response to Prompt II.

R e m i n d e r s :

Your response to Prompt II is due no later than 09/17 by 7 p.m. EST

L e c t u r e :

3.1: “Prompt II and General Update”

Available on: Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 3 > Prompt II

V i d e o s :

R E Q U I R E D “If a Tree Fall: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front,” Produce by Marshall Curry,

2011 (1:24)

Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvh1SnnPQ_M

H I G H L Y R E C O M M E N D E D

[ALF] “Your Mommy Kills Animals,” Produced by Curt Johnson, 2007 (1:05)

Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-KCCFsmdE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvh1SnnPQ_M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-KCCFsmdE

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R E Q U I R E D

Hoffman, Inside Terrorism, 173-195. (Required text)

Rosebraugh, Burning Rage of a Dying Planet, 132-272 (Required text)

Jean-Mark Flukiger, “The Radical Animal Liberation Movement: Some Reflections on Its Future,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Vol 2, No. 2 (2008), pp. 111-32.

Available at: http://muse.jhu.edu.mutex.gmu.edu/journals/journal_for_the_study_of_radicalism/v002/2.2.flukiger.pdf

“Operational Objectives,” in “Assessing Terrorist Motivations for Attacking Critical Infrastructure,” pp. 25 and 49-54.



PROMPT II:

See complete directions and accompanying lecture: Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 3 > Prompt II

Grade: Your response represents ten (10) percent of your final grade.

Length: ~ 800 words (no more than 900, no less than 700)

Due: No later than 09/17 by 7 p.m. EST

Submission: Post to: Blackboard > Discussion Board > Prompt II

http://muse.jhu.edu.mutex.gmu.edu/journals/journal_for_the_study_of_radicalism/v002/2.2.flukiger.pdf

http://muse.jhu.edu.mutex.gmu.edu/journals/journal_for_the_study_of_radicalism/v002/2.2.flukiger.pdf


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WEEK 4: September 24, 2015

T O P I C :

FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISM (FRE)

O v e r v i e w :

Having explored ethno-nationalist /separatist groups and far-left extremism, we now turn to far-right extremism (FRE). Specifically, we explore the origins of American neo-Nazism, its progenitors in the British Nazi underground, its most important literary manifestation (i.e., The Turner Diaries3), and, arguably, its greatest perceived martyr: Robert J. Mathews. Please note that you have no graded assignment for the week (however, this week’s materials are addressed in next week’s Prompt III).

I recommend that you engage this week’s materials in the following order: 1. Watch lecture 4.1: “Week 4 - Overview of Readings and Other Materials.” Located

on Blackboard > Weekly Module > Week 4

2. Watch: lecture, 4.2: “Overview of U.S. Far-Right Extremism.” Located on Blackboard > Weekly Module > Week 4

3. Read, Blair, "U.S. Right-Wing Extremism" 4. Read: Blair, “Looking Clearly at Right-Wing Terrorism” 5. Read: Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun 6. Read: Gardell, Gods of the Blood 7. Read: Griffin, The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds 8. Read: Macdonald, The Turner Diaries 9. Listen to: Robert Mathews, “A Call to Arms” 10. Watch Video: “Bruder Schweigen / The Order”

R e m i n d e r s :

Your response to Prompt III is due next week (no later than 7 p.m. EST, 09/30)


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L e c t u r e

4.1: “Overview of Readings and Other Materials.”

4.2: “Overview of U.S. Far-Right Extremism.” Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 4

3 A seminal FRE text the noted psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton aptly summarizes as, “Guru in literary form.”

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R e a d i n g s :

R E Q U I R E D

Charles P. Blair, “U.S. Right-Wing Extremism,” in Charles P. Blair and

Jeffrey M. Bale, Radiological and Nuclear Adversary Project, Task 1:

Radiological and Nuclear Adversary Behavior Profiles (College Park, MD:

National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to

Terrorism, 2012), pp. 41-67 and 134-174.

Available on Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 4 > Readings

Charles P. Blair, “Looking Clearly at Right-Wing Terrorism,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, June 2014.

Available at: http://thebulletin.org/looking-clearly-right-wing-terrorism7232

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, 1-51. (Required text)

Mattias Gardell, Gods of the Blood, 1-66. (Required text)

Robert S. Griffin, The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds: An Up-Close Portrait of White Nationalist William Pierce (self-published, 2001), pp. 1-17, 149-166, and 209-224.

Available on Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 4

Andrew Macdonald4, The Turner Diaries, Forward – 79. (Required text)

R e a d i n g s :

R E C O M M E N D E D

Leonard Zeskind, Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009).

Chapter 7: “Survivalism Meets a Subcultural Christian Identity,’” pp. 60-68.

Available on Blackboard. Forthcoming

Chapter 8: “Nation and Race: Aryan Nations, Nehemiah Township, and Gordon Kahl”, pp. 69-77.


Chapter 9: “Christian Patriots after Gordon Kahl,” pp. 78-83.


Chapter 10: “Birth of the First Underground,” pp. 84-95.

4 Andrew Macdonald was a pseudonym used by Dr. William J. Pierce (1933-2002), a former physic professor (University of

Oregon, Corvallis) and founder of the seminal – but now largely defunct – neo-Nazi organization, the National Alliance.

http://thebulletin.org/looking-clearly-right-wing-terrorism7232

http://thebulletin.org/looking-clearly-right-wing-terrorism7232

http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/pierce.html

http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/extremism/once-nations-largest-neo-nazi-group-is-nearly-defunct.html#.VetJsxFViko

http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/domestic-extremism-terrorism/c/national-alliance-backgrounder.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

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Chapter 11: “Enclave Nationalism and The Order,” pp. 96-106.


Ben Klassen, Nature’s Eternal Religion, (Self-Published, 1973).


Charles P. Blair, "U.S. Right-Wing Extremism: Radiological and Nuclear Behaviors," DRAFT, Federation of American Scientists, 2012, pp.1-51.

“[William Pierce] The Guru of White Hate, Rolling Stone, June 8, 2000.


Southern Poverty Law Center, “Terror from the Right,” 2009.

Available at: http://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/downloads/publication/terror_from_the_right_0.pdf

Stern, Terror in the Name of God, 9-31, 147-171. (Required text)

A u d i o

“A Call to Arms,” Robert Mathews – supplemental commentary by Dr. William J. Pierce (aka, “Andrew Macdonald,” author of the Turner Diaries). Recorded live, September 4, 1983, General Conference, National Alliance, Arlington, Virginia. (23 minutes)

Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vlNVCmU8oI

V i d e o s

R E Q U I R E D

“Bruder Schweigen / The Order,” ABC News (1995) (47 minutes)

Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mROoMMqkIiY


“Nazi America: A Secret History.” Produced by Greg DeHart (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2000), 92 minutes

Available at: http://search.alexanderstreet.com.mutex.gmu.edu/view/work/1791595

http://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/downloads/publication/terror_from_the_right_0.pdf

http://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/downloads/publication/terror_from_the_right_0.pdf

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WEEK 5: October 1, 2015

T O P I C :

FRE CONTINUED

O v e r v i e w :

This week we continue our exploration of FRE, including the racist ideology of Christian Identity, the seminal writings and neo-Nazi activism of Savitri Devi, and the origins and manifestations of FRE conspiracy beliefs and the so-called “New World Order.” I recommend you engage this week’s materials in the following order:

1. Read: Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun, 232-256 (“Christian Identity and Creativity”) 2. Read: Gardell, Gods of the Blood, 117-136 (”Christian Identity: the Gospel of Aryan

Israel” and “Our Race is Our Religion”) 3. Read: Macdonald, The Turner Diaries 4. Watch: “America’s Worst Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh” 5. Return to Gardell, Gods of the Blood, read remaining pages (see below) 6. Return to Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun, read remaining pages (see below)

R e m i n d e r s :

Your response to Prompt III is due this week: no later than 10/01 by 9 PM EST.


PROMPT III: Complete instructions available at: Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 5 > Prompt II

Grade: Your response represents fifteen (15) percent of your final grade. Grading metrics for your response to Prompts are available here.

Due: No later than 09/30 by 9 PM.

Submission: Post to: Blackboard > Discussion Board > Prompt III

V i d e o

“America’s Worst Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh,” A&E Television Network (2001) (42 minutes).

Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss2-5EVCw6s

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R E Q U I R E D

Charles P. Blair, “The Pathological Legacy of the Oklahoma City Bombing,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 2014.

Available at: http://thebulletin.org/pathological-legacy-oklahoma-city-bombing8200

Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, 88-106, 232-256, 279-306. (Required text)

Gardell, Gods of the Blood, 67-136, 191-230, 324-343. (Required text)

Macdonald, The Turner Diaries, 80-211. (Required text)

Martin Durham, “Christian Identity and the Politics of Religion,” Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, Vol 9, No. 1 (March 2008), pp. 79-91.


H I G H L Y R E C O M M E N D E D A 2005 internal report I wrote shortly after attending a Christian Identity

Gathering.

Charles P. Blair, "Pastor Pete Peters - Christian Identity Sermon," 2005.

Available on Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 4 > Readings. [PFD: Pete_Peters_CI_Colville_May_2005.pdf ]

R E C O M M E N D E D Theodore Kaczynski’s April 2000 letter about Timothy McViegh (the two

met each other when McVeigh spent time at Supermax prior his execution).

Available on Blackboard> Weekly Modules > Week 5 > Readings

Jeffrey, M. Bale, “Apocalyptic Millenarian Groups,” in Charles P. Blair

and Jeffrey M. Bale, Radiological and Nuclear Adversary Project, Task 1:

Radiological and Nuclear Adversary Behavior Profiles (College Park, MD:

National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to

Terrorism, 2010), pp. 4-44.


Savitri Devi, The Lightning and the Sun (Calcutta: Temple Press, 1958).


http://thebulletin.org/pathological-legacy-oklahoma-city-bombing8200

http://thebulletin.org/pathological-legacy-oklahoma-city-bombing8200

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Jessica Eve Stern, “The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord,” in Jonathan Tucker, ed., Toxic Terror (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000).


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T O P I C :

ANTI-TECHNOLOGY & NEO-ANARCHIST EXTREMISM PART I: IDEOLOGY

O v e r v i e w :

This week we begin our examination of arguably the most radical of VNSA ideologies: the destruction of civilization itself, one that entails no post-apocalypse “rebuilding;” rather the re-ordering of humans into small clans and tribes: devoid of any element of civilization – akin to “primitive man.” While some religious millenarian groups / cults have sought apocalyptic ends5, adherents to anti-technology and neo-anarchist (e.g., Anarcho-Primitivist) extremist ideologies are almost entirely secular.6 Moreover, many such extremists do not espouse an apocalyptic millenarian ideology embracing any kind of post-apocalypse “Garden of Eden,” whether terrestrial or heavenly. This week we develop a theoretic understanding of ATNAE by examining the writings of its ideological progenitors and primary modern ideologues: Lewis Mumford, Theodore Kaczynski, John Zerzan, and others. Next week we return to anti-technology and neo-anarchy extremism: its emerging ideology, group structures, operational objectives, and possible targeting and other attack modalities. I suggest you engage this week’s materials in the following order:

1. Watch: Lecture 6.1: “Overview of Neo-Anarchism and Anti-Technology Extremism.” 2. Read: “Enemy of the State: An Interview with John Zerzan.” 3. Read: Theodore Kaczynski and David Skrbina, Technological Slavery. 4. Read: Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine. 5. Watch: “The Net: The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet.”

R e m i n d e r s :

Midterm is due in two weeks – no later than midnight (EST) 10/22.

L e c t u r e :

6.1:“Overview of Neo-Anarchism and Anti-Technology Extremism.” Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 6

5 Most notably Aum Shinrikyo – discussed in this course’s section on religious cults.

6 When embracing anything akin to a “theology,” Theodore Kaczynski speaks for many anarcho-primitivists when he

writes, “The positivist ideal [proposed] is Nature. That is WILD nature: Those aspects of the functioning of the Earth and its living things that are independent of human management and free of human interference and control. And with wild nature we include human nature, by which we mean those aspects of the functioning of the human individual that are not subject to regulation by organized society but are products of chance, or free will, or God (depending on your religious or philosophical opinions).” Emphasis in the original, ISAIF - 183.

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R E Q U I R E D

“Enemy of the State: An Interview with John Zerzan,” in John Zerzan, Running on Empty: The Pathology of Civilization (Port Townsend, WA: Feral House, 2008), pp. 67-94.

Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 6

“FC,” “Industrial Society and Its Future,” in Theodore Kaczynski and David Skrbina, Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. “The Unabomber,” (Port Townsend, WA: Feral House, 2010), pp. 9-35 and 38-120. Required Text

Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine: the Pentagon of Power (New York: Columbia University Press, 1970).

Chapter 3: "Return of the Sun God,” pp. 28-104

Three separate PDFs: Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 6


Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (New York: Vintage Books, 1964).


Martin Heideger, The Question Concerning Technology (New York: Harper and Row, 1977).


Cellarius, “Darwin Among the Machines,” To the editors of The Press, Christ Church, New Zealand, 13 June, 1863.

Available at: http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-ButFir-t1-g1-t1-g1-t4-body.html

Highly recommended: Bill Joy, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” Wired, April 2000. (Joy is Founder of Sun Microsystems.)

Available at: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html

Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine: the Pentagon of Power (New York: Columbia University Press, 1970).

Chapter 9: “The Nucleation of Power,” pp. 230-262. Available via book only.

http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-ButFir-t1-g1-t1-g1-t4-body.html

http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-ButFir-t1-g1-t1-g1-t4-body.html

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html

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Chapter 11: "The Megatechnic Wasteland,” 300-320. Available via book only.

Chapter 13: “Demoralization and Insurgence,” 346-377. Available via book only.

V i d e o

“The Net: The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet,” Lutz Dammbecks (2003) (English and German with subtitles, 1:55)

Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLqrVCi3l6E

R e c o m m e n d e d V i d e o

“Theodore J. Kaczynski: The Unabomber,” A&E Television Network (1998) (includes transcript) (45 minutes)

Available at: http://search.alexanderstreet.com.mutex.gmu.edu/embed/token/05vroc9n74r34d9n

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLqrVCi3l6E

http://search.alexanderstreet.com.mutex.gmu.edu/embed/token/05vroc9n74r34d9n

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T O P I C :

ANTI-TECHNOLOGY & NEO-ANARCHIST EXTREMISM II: EMERGING IDEOLOGIES, ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES, and TARGETING

O v e r v i e w :

Having explored ideologies and relevant scholarly works of great salience to Anarcho-Primitivist and Anti-Technology extremists, we now turn to the movement’s (writ large) evolving ideology, structure and emerging attack modality trajectories. I recommend you engage the materials in the following order:

1. Read: Kaczynski (“Hit Where it Hurts”) 2. Watch: Aric McBay “Earth at Risk.” 3. Read: McBay, Keith, and Jensen 4. Read: Kaczynski and Skrbina (Technology Slavery) 5. Read: Nussbaum

NOTE: In order to facilitate your crafting of the Midterm, next week’s course materials (e.g., readings) are relatively light.

R e m i n d e r :

Midterm is due no later than midnight (EST) next week (10/22).

V i d e o

Aric McBay, “Earth at Risk: Building a Resistance Movement to Save the Planet,” (2012), 58:00. Note: you will assess this video’s content as part of Prompt IV.

Available on: Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 7

R e a d i n g s :

R E Q U I R E D

Ted Kaczynski, “Hit Where it Hurts,” Green Anarchy, No. 8 (2002), pp. 3-8.

Available at: Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 7

Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, and Derrick Jensen, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet (New York, Seven Stories Press, 2011),

Chapter 12: “Introduction to Strategy,” 345-390

Chapter 13: “Tactics and Targets,” 391-424

Chapter 14: "Decisive Ecological Warfare, 425-474

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All three available as separate PDFs on Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 7 > Readings

Theodore Kaczynski and David Skrbina, Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. “The Unabomber,” (Port Townsend, WA: Feral House, 2010), pp. 190-220. Course Text

Brian Nussbaum, “The Ideologies of Anti-Technology Violence,” CTX, Vol 3, No. 4, November 2013.

Available at: https://globalecco.org/the-ideologies-of-anti-technology-violence

O P T I O N A L ( B U T E S S E N T I A L )

Louis Beam, "Leaderless Resistance," The Seditionist, No. 12, February 1992

(written in 1983), pp. 1-7.


https://globalecco.org/the-ideologies-of-anti-technology-violence

https://globalecco.org/the-ideologies-of-anti-technology-violence

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Week 8: October 22, 2015

T O P I C :

ATTACK MODALITES IN ACTION: PART 1

O v e r v i e w :

Building on our knowledge of VNSA, primary group factors, and several ideologies, we now focus on “attack modalities” – the methods and techniques VNSA employ to attack targets. Like group factors, this course’s 16 attack modalities represent primary factors used in establishing a functional – relatively holistic - attack framework suitable for red teaming. I recommend engaging the week’s materials as follows:

1. Read: “Attack Modalities.”

2. Per explicit guidance found in the above reading, consult: Ackerman, Blair, and Bale, Incident Codebook.

3. Read Blair and Straskulic, “Target Sochi.”

4. Skim “Selected VNSA Incidents:” ETA, M19, and two Chechen incidents.

NOTE: In order to facilitate your crafting of the Midterm, this week’s course readings are relatively light.

R e m i n d e r s :

Midterm is due this week; no later than midnight (EST) 10/22 (post as an attached Word doc to Blackboard Discussion Board).

R e a d i n g s

R E Q U I R E D

“Attack Modalities,” (drawn from applicable sections of, “Assessing Terrorist Motivation to Attack Critical Infrastructure”).

See Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 8 > Readings

Gary A. Ackerman, Charles P. Blair, and Jeffrey M. Bale, Incident Codebook, Draft 1.0, Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (San Jose, CA: The Akribis Group, 2007).

Note: This document provides discrete variables and sub variables useful for contextualizing and classifying several attack modalities. I recommend you use it when addressing future course assignments (i.e., Prompt IV, Prompt V, and the final).

“Attack Type,” pp. 19-22.

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“Target Type,” pp. 30-33.

“Weapon Information,” pp. 46-48.

“Claim of Responsibility,” pp. 43-45.


Charles P. Blair and Robert Straskulic, “Target Sochi: The Threat from the Caucasus Emirate,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 2014.

Available at: http://thebulletin.org/target-sochi-threat-caucasus-emirate

Blair, et al. skim “Selected VNSA Incidents:”

ETA “Assassination of Prime Minister” (1973), 26-35.

M19 “Palace of Justice Siege” (1985), 2-15.

Chechen “Budyonnovsk Hospital Assault” (1995), pp. 46-54.

Chechen “Nord Orst Seige” (2002), pp. 36-45.

See Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 8 > Readings

A s s i g n m e n t s :

Midterm is due in this week; no later than midnight (EST) 10/22 (post as an attached Word doc to Blackboard Discussion Board).

http://thebulletin.org/target-sochi-threat-caucasus-emirate

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T O P I C :

ATTACK MODALITIES IN ACTION: PART 2

O v e r v i e w :

We continue our examination of attack modalities via specific factors (e.g., targeting) amid a variety of specific VNSA incidents. I recommend you engage the week’s materials as follows:

1 . Briefly peruse: START – GTD Globe

2 . Read: van Dongen, “The Lengths Terrorists go to.”

3 . Read: Santiford, “Terrorist attack and Target Diversity.”

4 . Read: LaFree, “Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Terrorist Attacks by ETA”

5 . Watch: your first video choice (out of five options) 6 . Read; Blair, Anatomizing Nuclear and Radiological Non-State Adversaries

7 . Read: Kalpakian, “Comparing the 2003 and 2007 Incidents in Casablanca.”

8 . Read: Fair, “The 2008 Mumbai Attack.”

9 . Watch your second video choice

R e m i n d e r s :

Prompt IV is due next week, no later than 7 p.m. 11/05.

R e a d i n g s :

R E Q U I R E D

Peruse: START – GTD Globe

Available at: http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/globe/index.html

Give it a minute to open up - a large globe will appear.

Teun van Dongen, “The Lengths Terrorists go to: Perpetrator Characteristics and the Complexity of Jihadist Terrorist Attacks in Europe, 2004–2011,” Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, (2014) Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 58–80.


Charlinda Santiford, Todd Sandler, and Patrick T Brandt, Terrorist attack and Target Diversity: Changepoints and their Drivers,” Journal of Peace Research (2012), Vol, 50, No. 1, pp. 75-90.


http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/globe/index.html

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Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan, Min Xie, and Piyusha Singh, “Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Terrorist Attacks by ETA 1970 to 2007,” Journal of Quantitative Criminology (2012), Vol 28, pp. 7-29.


Charles P. Blair, Anatomizing Nuclear and Radiological Non-State Adversaries: The Pakistani Neo-Taliban (Washington, DC: Federation of American Scientists, 2011), 132-150.


Jack Kalpakian, “Comparing the 2003 and 2007 Incidents in Casablanca,” in, Bruce Hoffman and Fernando eds., The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama Bin Laden’s Death (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), 498-518.


C. Christine Fair, “The 2008 Mumbai Attack,” in, Bruce Hoffman and Fernando eds., The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama Bin Laden’s Death (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), 571-600.



Skim, Anders Breivik, “2083: A European Declaration of Independence,” 2011.


Mattias Gardell, “Crusader Dreams: Oslo 22/7, Islamophobia, and the Quest for a Monocultural Europe,” Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 129-155.


Catherine Appleton, “Lone Wolf Terrorism in Norway,” (2014) The International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 127-142


George Michael, “Counterinsurgency and Lone Wolf Terrorism,” (2014) Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 45-57.


Charles P. Blair, Kelsey Gregg, and Jonathan Garbose, “Norway’s Anders Brevik: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Politics of Cultural Despair,” Federation of American Scientists, July 27, 2011.

Available at: http://fas.org/blogs/security/2011/07/norways-anders-breivik-weapons-of-mass-destruction-and-politics-of-cultural-despair/

http://fas.org/blogs/security/2011/07/norways-anders-breivik-weapons-of-mass-destruction-and-politics-of-cultural-despair/

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V i d e o s :

View at least two of the following five videos:

1984 & 1991: “The Assassination of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi,” Infamous Assassinations, BBC, 2007. (26:00)


1979: “The Assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten,” Infamous Assassinations, BBC, 1999. (26:00)

Available at: http://search.alexanderstreet.com.mutex.gmu.edu/view/work/1791757?play=1

2011: “Norway’s Massacre,” This World, BBC, 2012. (59:00)

Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvZ8ZIWsj_4

2005: “London Terrorist Attacks,” World Wide Entertainment, 2011. (25:00).

Available at: http://search.alexanderstreet.com.mutex.gmu.edu/view/work/1792932?play=1

1995: “Japanese Sarin Cult,” International Terrorism since 1945, BBC, 2008. (26:00).



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WEEK 10: November 5, 2015

T O P I C :

VIOLENT ISLAMISTS

R e m i n d e r s :

Prompt IV is due this week, no later than 7 p.m., 11/05.

L e c t u r e ( s ) :

10.1: Dr. Sayed Hassan Q & A, Part I: Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 10


Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower, 3-175. (Assigned Text)

Sayyid Qutb, Milestones (Cairo: Kazi Publications, 1964).


Scott Atran, ("A Parallel Universe: The 9/11 Hamburg Group and the Three Waves of Jihad"), Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists, pp. 105-115.


Fawaz A. Gergez, “ISIS and the Third Wave of Jihadism,” Current History (December 2014), pp. 339-343.

Available at: http://currenthistory.com/Gerges_Current_History.pdf

Charles P. Blair, “ISIS: The unsurprising surprise that is sweeping Iraq,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 18, 2014.

Available at: http://thebulletin.org/isis-unsurprising-surprise-sweeping-iraq7251

R e c o m m e n d e d :

Scott Atran, ("The Great Train Bombing: Madrid, March 11, 2004"), Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists, pp. 168-193.


Jessica Lewis McFate, “The ISIS Defense in Iraq and Syria: Countering an Adaptive Enemy,” Middle East Security Report No. 27, Institute for the Study of War, 2015. Available at:

Available at: http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/ISIS%20Defense%20in%20Iraq%20and%20Syria%20--%20Standard.pdf

http://currenthistory.com/Gerges_Current_History.pdf

http://thebulletin.org/isis-unsurprising-surprise-sweeping-iraq7251

http://thebulletin.org/isis-unsurprising-surprise-sweeping-iraq7251

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/ISIS%20Defense%20in%20Iraq%20and%20Syria%20--%20Standard.pdf

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Prompt IV For instructions, see: Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 10 > Prompt IV

Grade: Your response represents ten (10) percent of your final grade. Grading metrics for your response to Prompts are available here.


Submission: Post to: Blackboard > Discussion Board > Prompt IV

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T O P I C :

VIOLENT ISLAMIST CONTINUED, SOLDIERS OF ZION

R e m i n d e r s :

Your response to Prompt V is due in two weeks: no later than 11/19 by 7 p.m.

Final is due no later than 7 p.m. 12/14.

L e c t u r e ( s ) :

11.1: Dr. Sayed Hassan Q & A, Part II: Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 11

R e a d i n g s :

Brynjar Lia, Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al-Qaida strategist Abu Musʻab al-Suri (New York : Columbia University Press, 2008), pp. 1-34 and 347-390.

Available as two (2) separate PDFs on Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 11 > Readings

Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower, 176 -373. (Assigned Text)

Jessica E. Stern, Terror in the Name of God, 85 -106. (Assigned Text)

Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Name of God: The Global Rise of Religious Terrorism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), pp. 45-60.


R e c o m m e n d e d R e a d i n g s :

Gordon M. Hahn, “Getting the Caucasus Emirate Right,” A Report of the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (August 2011).

Available at: http://csis.org/files/publication/110930_Hahn_GettingCaucasusEmirateRt_Web.pdf

Gordon M. Hahn, “The Caucasus Emirate in the Levant and the IS-AQ Fitna, Complete Version (Parts 1 and 2),” 2015.

Available at: http://gordonhahn.com/2015/02/25/the-caucasus-emirate-in-the-levant-and-the-is-aq-fitna-complete-parts-1-and-2/

V i d e o s :

REQUIRED

http://csis.org/files/publication/110930_Hahn_GettingCaucasusEmirateRt_Web.pdf

http://csis.org/files/publication/110930_Hahn_GettingCaucasusEmirateRt_Web.pdf

http://gordonhahn.com/2015/02/25/the-caucasus-emirate-in-the-levant-and-the-is-aq-fitna-complete-parts-1-and-2/

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A Prayer for Beslan (48:00) http://search.alexanderstreet.com.mutex.gmu.edu/view/work/2110921

Early Israeli Terrorism (24:00) http://search.alexanderstreet.com.mutex.gmu.edu/view/work/1791892

RECOMMENDED

Beslan Massacre (26:00) http://search.alexanderstreet.com.mutex.gmu.edu/view/work/1792915

Beslan: Siege of School No.1 (57:00) http://mutex.gmu.edu/login?url=http://digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?ai

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T O P I C :

RELIGIOUS EXTREMIST CULTS

R e m i n d e r s :

Your response to Prompt V is due this week: no later than 7 p.m., 11/19.

Final is due in ~ 3 weeks: no later than 7 p.m., 12/14.

R e a d i n g s :

Jeffrey, M. Bale, “Apocalyptic Millenarian Groups,” in Charles P. Blair and Jeffrey M.

Bale, Radiological and Nuclear Adversary Project, Task 1: Radiological and Nuclear

Adversary Behavior Profiles (College Park, MD: National Consortium for the Study of

Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, 2012), pp. 1-44.

See: Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 12 > Readings

Jeffrey M. Bale, “The Cult Wars,” part 1 and 2, Hit Lists, vol. 2, 4, and 5 (January – February 2001 and May – June 2001).

Blackboard > Weekly Modules > Week 12 > Readings

Ian Reader, “Creation, Preservation and Destruction - The Development and Nature of the Religion of Supreme Truth,” in Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum Shrinrikyo (Honolulu Hi: University of Hawaii Press, 2000), pp. 61-95.

R e c o m m e n d e d :

Ian Reader, “Murder on the Tokyo Subway: Nerve Centres, Religion and Violence,” Space and Polity, 2013, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 377–392.

Raëlians: Susan J. Palmer, Aliens Adored: Rael’s UFO Religion (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 2004).

Available at: http://mutex.gmu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=129962&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Margery Wakefield, The Road to Xenu: Life Inside Scientology (New York: LuLu Publishing, 2010).

W. Seth Carus, “Rajneeshees (1984).” in Jonathon Tucker, ed., Toxic Terror (Cambridge,

MA: MIT Press, 2000), 115-137.


R e q u i r e d V i d e o :

http://mutex.gmu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=129962&site=ehost-live&scope=site

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“Aum Shinrikyo Cult Leader Shoko Asahara Documentary,” (27:00)

Available on Blackboard (Week 12) and at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ7uz8EYMYo

R e c o m m e n d e d V i d e o :

“Cult Witness: A Study of Cultic Experience.” (70 minutes) http://mutex.gmu.edu/login?url=http://digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=1844&xtid=42203


Prompt V

Instructions: Weekly Modules > Week 12 > Prompt V

Grade: Your response represents ten (10) percent of your final grade. Grading metrics for your response to Prompts are available here


Submission: Post to: Blackboard > Discussion Board > Prompt V

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Week 13: December 3, 2015

T O P I C :

THE FIFTH WAVE OF TERRORISM?

R e m i n d e r s :

Final is due no later than 12/14 by 7 p.m. Post as an attached Microsoft Word document to Blackboard > Discussion Board > Final

R e a d i n g s :

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (New York: Random House, 2007), pp. 137-189

Available at: Weekly Modules > Week 13 > Readings

Cynthia F. Kurtz and David J. Snowden, “The New Dynamics of Strategy: Sense-Making in a Complex and Complicated World,” IBM Systems Journal, Vol 42, No 3, 2003, pp. 262-283.

Available at: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~brooks/storybiz/kurtz.pdf

Hoffman, 257-297 (Required Text)


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WEEK 14: December 10, 2015

T O P I C :

CONCLUSION

R e m i n d e r s :

The final is due no later than 12/14 by 7 p.m.


You final paper is due this week.

Grade: Your response represents thirty (30) percent of your final grade.

Due: No later than 9 PM 12/14.

Submission: Blackboard (in Word format)

R e a d i n g s :

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A P P E N D I C E S

APPENDIX I:

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Relying heavily on the words of the terrorist themselves, this course involves the study of violent non-state actors (VNSA), largely from the “inside out.” The course investigates salient VNSA group types including ethno-nationalist, far-left, far-right, conspiracy orientated, religious cults, so-called “neo-anarchists,” as well as so-called “lone-wolves,” and other emerging / possible threats. Many specific VNSA groups fall into two or more of these categories. Included as well are case studies of specific terrorist groups, cells, and individuals. Special topics include ideology, other VNSA group factors, attack modalities, and creation of semi-fictional VNSA groups and their attacks.

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APPENDIX II: MATERIALS, ASSIGNMENTS, AND METRICS

REQUIRED TEXTS: Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front Author(s): Craig Rosebraugh ISBN-10: 1590560647 ISBN-13: 978-1590560648 Publisher: Lantern Books (September 2004) Inside Terrorism

Note: Revised & enlarged edition Author: Bruce Hoffman ISBN-10: 0231126999 ISBN-13: 978-0231126991 Publisher: Columbia University Press (2006)

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Author(s): Lawrence Wright ISBN-10: 1400030846 ISBN-13: 978-1400030842 Publisher: Knopf (2006)

The Turner Diaries

Note: Any edition is fine (first published in book format in 1978) Author(s): Andrew MacDonald ISBN-10: 1569800863 ISBN-13: 978-1569800867 Publisher: Barricade Books (1996)

LATE ASSIGNMENTS: INSTRUCTOR’S POLICY

You are welcome to turn assignments in late. The penalty is a 10 percent daily subtraction from the maximum score possible. If the assignment is turned in the day it is due, but after the assigned time, it is automatically considered one day late (i.e., 10 percent is subtracted). After 24 hours, it is considered two days late (i.e., 20 percent is subtracted), etc.

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A NOTE ON WORKLOAD

I appreciate that many students work demanding jobs and that it may be difficult to complete all of the reading for each week. The goal for the weekly workload for the course is 8 to 9 hours, with about 75 percent of your time devoted to reading and 25 percent of your time devoted to writing. That means you should plan to be reading somewhere between 5 and 6.5 hours each week.

GRADING METRICS

Basis for Final Grade

1. Replies to Prompts X 5: 50 points 2. Midterm (due 10/22): 20 points 3. Final(due 12/14): 30 points

LETTER GRADES & POINTS

100 -94 points = A

93 - 90 points = A-

89 - 87 points = B+

86 - 84 points = B

83 - 80 points = B-

79 - 77 points = C+

76 - 74 points = C

73 - 70 points = C-

ASSIGNMENTS/ASSESSMENTS:

1. Replies to Prompts

Overview Collectively, replies to Prompts equal a maximum of 50 points. Replies to Prompts are straight-forward. For five of the fourteen weeks, I supply a question(s) with regard to readings, lectures, videos, etc. Student replies are posted to Blackboard (Blackboard > Discussion Board > Prompts).

Replies are due on the following dates (all by 7 p.m.) Prompt I: Week 2 (09/10) – 5 points Prompt II: Week 3 (09/17) – 10 points

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Prompt III: Week 5 (10/01) – 15 points Prompt IV: Week 10 (11/05) – 10 points Prompt V: Week 12 (11/19) – 10 points)

Scoring & Criteria In sum, responses to Prompts equal up to 50 points. Each Prompt has a maximum of 5, 10, or 15 points. 5, 10, or 15 points: Excellent reply; sharp insight (reflecting all relevant readings and other material for that week); articulate; superior writing ability; post is an example for others to follow. 4, 8-9, or 13-15 points: Good reply (reflects almost all relevant readings and other material for that week); thoughts are clearly written; solid execution. 3, 7, 11-12 points: Satisfactory reply (reflects some of the relevant readings and other material for that week); post communicates at generally acceptable level; displays passable understanding of that week’s concepts; average work. 2, 5-6, 8-10 points: Quality of reply is below average and largely unacceptable. 0-1, 0-4, 1-7 points: Quality of reply is entirely unacceptable.

2. Midterm

Full instructions available at: Blackboard > “Midterm” > main page – just below “Discussion Board”

Due no later than midnight 10/22.

Scoring & Criteria

Worth a maximum of 20 points, scoring metrics are as follows:

19-20 Points:

Outstanding VNSA Profile: highly original, clearly informed by all course material to date; superior writing ability; Profile would be an example for others to follow.

18 Points:

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Excellent VNSA Profile: original, clearly informed by almost all course material to date; very good writing ability.

17 Points: Good VNSA Profile: somewhat original, clearly informed

by a good deal of all course materials; good writing skills.

15-16 Points: Decent VNSA Profile: generally lacking originality;

clearly lacking an informed utilization of most course

materials; not terribly well written.

14 Points:

A pained VNSA Profile: clearly lacking originality;

obviously lacking an informed utilization of course

materials; not terribly well written.

0 -12 Points: Bordering on a war crime.

3. Final

Details

Your final is due no later than 7 p.m. 12/14.

Length: no more than ~ six pages (single spaced, including your medium sized VNSA symbol / flag).The final equals a maximum of 30 points.

Topic: o When available:

See > Blackboard > “Final” > main page

Scoring & Criteria

Worth a maximum of 30 points, scoring metrics are as follows:

30 Points:

Outstanding VNSA Profile and Attack Modalities: highly original, clearly informed by all course material to date; superior writing ability; Profile would be an example for others to follow.

28-29 Points:

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Excellent VNSA Profile and Attack Modalities: original, clearly informed by almost all course material to date; very good writing ability.

25-27 Points:

Good VNSA Profile: somewhat original, clearly informed by a good deal of all course materials; good writing skills.

22-24 Points:

Decent VNSA Profile and Attack Modalities: generally lacking originality; clearly lacking an informed utilization of most course materials; not terribly well written.

21 Points:

A pained VNSA Profile and Attack Modalities: clearly lacking originality; obviously lacking an informed utilization of course materials; not terribly well written.

0 -20 Points:

In many courts, quite possibly a crime against humanity.

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APPENDIX III: LINKS, NAMES, NUMBERS, OFFICE HOURS, ETC.

Instructor: CP Blair

Email: [email protected]

Cell: 202 510 2802

Office Hours: By appointment

Blackboard: https://mymasonportal.gmu.edu

Academic Calendar: http://registrar.gmu.edu/calendars/index.html Exam Calendar (Tuesday, 12/15/15 – 7:30 – 1015 am):

http://registrar.gmu.edu/calendars/fall-2015/exams/ Weather Emergency Phone Line: 703-993-1000 (“The announcement will be made on the

university switchboard and the University’s web site.” Emergency Notices Web Page: http://esgwebproxy.johnshopkins.edu/notice/

Mason Alert Emergency Notification System: http://ready.gmu.edu/masonalert/

https://mymasonportal.gmu.edu/

http://registrar.gmu.edu/calendars/index.html

http://registrar.gmu.edu/calendars/fall-2015/exams/

http://www.gmu.edu/

http://esgwebproxy.johnshopkins.edu/notice/

http://ready.gmu.edu/masonalert/

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Appendix IV: University Policies

Academic Integrity Faculty in SPGIA have zero tolerance for academic dishonesty and will strictly enforce Mason’s honor code. Students must be responsible for their own work, and students and faculty must take on the responsibility of dealing explicitly with violations. This tenet must be a primary pillar of our university culture. [See http://oai.gmu.edu/ ]. Honor Code Students must adhere to the guidelines of the George Mason University Honor Code [See http://www.gmu.edu/academics/catalog/9798/honorcod.html ]. MasonLive/Email Students are responsible for the content of university communications sent to their George Mason University email account and are required to activate their account and check it regularly. All communication from the university, college, school, and program will be sent to students solely through their Mason email account. [See https://masonlivelogin.gmu.edu/login ]. Students with Disabilities If you are a student with a disability and you need academic accommodations, please see me and contact the Disability Resource Center (DRC) at 993-2474. All academic accommodations must be arranged through the DRC. University Libraries University Libraries provides resources for distance students. [See http://library.gmu.edu/distance]. Writing Center The George Mason University Writing Center staff provides a variety of resources and services (e.g., tutoring, workshops, writing guides, and handbooks) intended to support students as they work to construct and share knowledge through writing. [See http://writingcenter.gmu.edu]. Counseling and Psychological Services The George Mason University Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) staff consists of professional counseling and clinical psychologists, social workers, and counselors who offer a wide range of services (e.g., individual and group counseling, workshops and outreach programs) to enhance students' personal experience and academic performance [See http://caps.gmu.edu or call (703) 993-2380].

http://oai.gmu.edu/

http://www.gmu.edu/academics/catalog/9798/honorcod.html

https://masonlivelogin.gmu.edu/login

http://library.gmu.edu/distance

http://writingcenter.gmu.edu/

http://caps.gmu.edu/

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Student Privacy The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), also known as the "Buckley Amendment," is a federal law that gives protection to student educational records and provides students with certain rights. [See http://registrar.gmu.edu/privacy]. Email Mason uses only Mason email accounts to communicate with enrolled students. Students must activate their Mason email account, use it to communicate with their department and other administrative units, and check it regularly for important university information including messages related to this class.

University Catalog University Catalog http://catalog.gmu.edu, is the central resource for university policies affecting student, faculty, and staff conduct in university academic affairs. Other policies are available at http://universitypolicy.gmu.edu/. All members of the university community are responsible for knowing and following established policies.

Other Considerations If there are any issues (e.g., religious holidays), please inform me the first week of class.

http://registrar.gmu.edu/privacy

http://catalog.gmu.edu/

http://universitypolicy.gmu.edu/

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