New World Disorder, New Terrorisms: New Threats for Europe and the Western World

Terrorism and Political Violence

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 30-51

  Raufer, Xavier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PANTHÉON ASSAS   (France)

^b Centre des Hautes Etudes de l'Armement   (France)

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EID: 17444448572     PISSN: 09546553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09546559908427530     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. See Michael Vlahos, 'The War After Byte City', The Washington Quarterly, Spring 1997.
2. The quotations that follow are taken from 'A New Millennium and a Strategic Breathing Place', The Washington Quarterly, Spring 1997. The author, Russell E. Travers, is an analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency.
3. See William Pfaff, 'The Pentagon is Hooked on Fancy Weapons It Doesn't Need', Herald Tribune, 22 May 1997.
4. Ahmed Ould Abdallah, La diplomatie pyromane, Calmann-Lévy, November 1996.
5. Ibid. Ould Abdallah knows wherein of he speaks: he has held several cabinet posts in his native Mauritania.
6. Ibid.
7. See Le Figaro, 15 January 1997, and U.S. News & World Report, 20 January 1997.
8. See Le Figaro, 15 January 1997, and U.S. News & World Report, 20 January 1997.
9. 2 and a population of three million, 10 per cent of whom are heavily armed.
10. 'Mexico militariza lucha contra Ia droga en Ia fontera none' (Mexico Militarizes Counternarcotics Campaign along the Northern Border), La Opinion, 16 May 1997.
11. In early June 1999, the British Royal Navy frigate HMS Marlborough seized from two ships in the Caribbean 8 tonnes of cocaine, with a street value exceeding UK£1 billion.
12. The fact that all recent important incidents of this sort took place in Pakistan is purely coincidental. A month earlier, or later, similar cases could have happened in 30 other countries anywhere in the world.
13. Ashgar Khan was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistani Air Force, then President of Pakistan Air Lines (PIA). Zia-ul-Haq died on 17 August 1988, when his private aircraft blew up, a crime that has not yet been solved.
14. See Annexes on Westphalia and piracy.
15. See Martin Van Creveld, The Transformation of War (New York: The Free Press 1991).
16. Jim Hoagland, 'Strategic Old Thinking Doesn't Block a Virus', Herald Tribune, 3 April 1997.
17. Strategic Problems of Revolutionary Warfare, December 1936.
18. Jean-David Nau, aka 'l'Ollonois', after his native Sables d'Ollones, aka 'the Scourge of the Spaniards'. He met an end worthy of a pirate when he was devoured by cannibals in the gulf of Darien (Panama). See David Cordingly's Under the Black Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life Among the Pirates (New York: Random House 1995).