To what extent is terrorism an effective military strategy? Discuss.

Any discussion of terrorism and its place as a military strategy has to firstly define its terms: what do we mean by terrorism and how does it manifest itself in contemporary accounts and moreover, what is the difference between legitimate military action and one based on terror? As Sederberg (1989) suggests, the answers to these are questions are complex and depend, to a very large extent, on who one is asking. A Government defence adviser would, for instance, have a markedly different notion of what constitutes…(short extract)