Countering terrorism

An increasing use of sophisticated weapons, explosive devices and other equipment by terrorists, criminals and anti-social elements has thrown fresh challenges before law enforcing agencies and underscores the need to understand terrorism from different angles.

The book is an attempt to understand the possibility and the probability of terrorist threats being posed in a situation of asymmetry as an exercise in coercive depilomacy. Various concepts of anti-terrorist measures and difference between the existentialist aspect of deterence doctrine and the ways in whch the concept has been used in the past so many years, have been examined from different aspects.

The book, it is intended, will meet the requirement of everybody including students, scholars, soliders, fighters and policy makers and even journalists. For easy appreciation book has been divided into three parts and covers all conceivable aspects of counter terrorism including its aids and adjuncts.

Attention has been paid to bring to the reader a compact and comprehensive note on terrorism and counter-terrorism so that it may serve as a text or a reference book to the students of terrorism. The book will be of special interest to persons serving in the Armed Forces, the Police and the Para-military Forces and also to those who directly or indirectly are involved in the task of combating terrorism.