Offensive and Defensive Responses to Maritime Terrorism
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This article discusses the offensive and defensive responses to maritime terrorism. It explains the advantages and disadvantages of each response and the feasibility of short-term and long-term solutions. The article also highlights the importance of understanding the roots of maritime terrorism to prevent it. The subject is maritime terrorism, and the course code and college/university are not mentioned.
Offensive and Defensive Responses to Maritime Terrorism
Added on 2022-01-20
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2 Offensive and Defensive Responses toMaritime Terrorism Maritime terrorism is an attempt or intimidation to forcefully capture and control the ships in the maritime space. It can also be defined as any trial to disrupt a ship, cause harm to the vessels or individuals onboard or endanger the safety of the navigating ship (Barnes, 2018). Maritime terrorism has presently focused on damaging ships and causing harm to the passengers on board. Marine terrorist activities are always associated with illegal or even legal businesses that operate within the world's water bodies. To prevent marine terrorism, there is a need to understand its roots. Both the offensive and defensive mechanisms can be applied in curbing maritime terrorism (Barnes, 2018). Severaldefensiveandoffensivemechanismscanbeappliedtopreventmaritime terrorism. They are divided into short term and long term. The short-term instruments include tactical intelligence operation for the offensive model and the prevention crisis management reconstruction for the defensive model. While the short-term tools include the enforcement of the law, trial of leaders, and operations against terrorist infrastructure for the offensive model (Haberfeld & Hassell, 2009). For the defensive model, we have trust creation, negotiation with leaders for the grievances of every party involved. Offensive Response to Maritime Terrorism The offensive response involves a direct action to lessen a particular problem(Haberfeld & Hassell, 2009). It is a dynamic attitude or source of tension, stress, and aggression. This response does not involve submission or arbitration but is more of confidentiality. Offensive response entails the war model, which is the tactical intelligence operation as the short-term response. While it takes criminal justice, which includes enforcement of the law, a trial of
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