Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
Dunno if talk about "non-state actors" really makes sense. The 60's and 70's were full of them, too. See all those counter-imperialist uprisings in Africa.

And yes, they were regularly called "terrorists".
Fuchs,

Agree best not to exaggerate nor to under estimate. The ability of NSA such as AQ to conduct global UW to attempt to leverage individuals and movements around the globe to their cause with modern information tools is new. This used to be the realm of states, now non-state groups play too, and being non-states hold no infrastructure that the states they compete with can hold at risk, contain or otherwise apply leverage to. That frustrates states.

So, yes, NSAs are a new empowered type of group that must be accounted for. Be it legal NSAs such as corporations who increasingly owe their loyalty to no state, or illegal NSAs such as AQ.