The Human Use of Human Beings: A Brief History of Suicide Bombing
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Since the attack on the World Trade Center in on September 11, 2001 the world has grown accustomed to reports of "suicide bombers." They are often portrayed as deluded or crazed, and they hold an almost lurid fascination for their willingness to kill themselves while killing others. This month, historian Jeffrey William Lewis puts what many of us see as a recent phenomenon in a longer historical perspective. He argues that it is more useful to think about suicide bombers as a type of human military technology that is controlled by an organization rather than as a form of individual fanaticism.On similar topics, readers should see The International Traffic in Arms; The U.S. and Iraq, U.S.-Iranian relations, coalition warfare in Iraq, U.S. counterinsurgency strategy, and what WikiLeaks tells us about American foreign relations.
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