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This is a comprehensive account of how terrorists and other types of insurgents utilize a variety of communication techniques in their propaganda to spread their messages, radicalize and motivate their adherents, and demonize their adversaries. . . . In examining the evolution of the communication technologies employed over the years, the authors employ a valuable methodology with each case study, highlighting a specific technology terrorist groups had utilized during the period of its activity.--Dr. Joshua Sinai, Perspectives on Terrorism

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Christopher C. Harmon is a terrorism specialist and held the privately endowed Horner Chair at the Marine Corps University Foundation. He has lectured at INTERPOL headquarters, on Capitol Hill, and at dozens of universities and graduate schools, in the United States and abroad. The lead author or editor of four books on terrorism and counterterrorism, he has published essays in the geopolitics journal Orbis, Strategic Studies Quarterly, and Oxford bibliographies. Randall G. Bowdish is a retired Navy captain who commanded the USS Simpson as part of the George Washington Battle Group when the USS Cole was bombed in Aden. He has lectured at the NATO Center of Excellence for Defense Against Terrorism and the Institute of World Politics and has taught courses on terrorism, irregular warfare, and strategy at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, University of Nebraska, Nebraska Wesleyan University, and the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he presently teaches. He has published widely on the subject of terrorism.

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