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Another limiting factor in analyzing the adoption of technology for political violence is that most terrorism scholars don’t focus on the technologies used. Whereas many of those who study the history of military innovation emphasize the hardware, like tanks and battleships, and neglect the software, like military doctrine and organizational learni

From 2013, American policymakers argued that armed UAVs (“drones”), along with Special Operations, could destroy al-Qaeda’s leadership and effectively end the war on terrorism.57

Terrorists leapt ahead of military tacticians in creating sophisticated small explosive devices that used dynamite.20