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In June 1914: A young man in Sarajevo steps up to a carriage and fires his pistol. The Archduke Ferdinand dies. Within weeks, the first world war began. In the 1940s: The French resistance kill occupying troops when and how they can. In June 1944: at Oradour-sur-G ....

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.... a long, and tainted, history. Aristotle recognized it, even if it had no name, at the time. He wrote, "The first aim and end of tyrants is to break the spirit of their subjects." What we know as terrorism can be traced back to the Russian Nihilists and Anarchists of the 19th century, who gave a name to what would otherwise be considered "Random acts of violence" that were performed to advance their revolutionary cause. They elevated terrorism to a high moral plane. One of them, Mikhail Bakunin, exclaimed: "The passion for destruction is also a creative passion." British military analyst Brian Crozier wrote in his 1974 book, "Theory of ....