@article{ref1,
title="Groups, networks, or movements: A command-and-control-driven approach to classifying terrorist organizations and its application to Al Qaeda",
journal="Studies in conflict and terrorism",
year="2006",
author="Jackson, Brian A.",
volume="29",
number="3",
pages="241-262",
abstract="Appropriately describing the properties and defining the boundaries of terrorist groups is frequently challenging. Public and policy discussion of Al Qaeda as a group, network, or broad social movement is described as an example of this problem, with an emphasis on the consequences of placing a terrorist organization in each of these different categories. To resolve the confusion that such uncertainties can introduce into discussion, an approach is described focusing on the strength of command-and-control linkages within an organization for laying out the differences between groups, networks, and movements and defining the boundaries between them.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1057-610X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}