Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
This article reviews theories on why some terrorist groups adopt the tactic and gives special attention to groups that could have, but did not, adopt suicide tactics. It concludes the “culture of martyrdom” explanation best accounts for an organization’s choice to use this tactic. Whether by carbomb or hijacked airplane, why terrorist groups carry out […]
On January 3, 2020, the U.S. military ordered a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport that killed a high-profile Iranian commander, Maj.Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who led the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Gen. Soleimani was the mastermind of Iran’s military operations across the Middle East. The overnight drone strike also killed Abu […]