Wholesale Terrorism Vs Retail Terrorism

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Hello Shannon, I really enjoyed reading your post. I believe that the difference between wholesale terrorism and retail terrorism is in the type of terrorism that is employed and who employs the terrorism. Wholesale terrorism differs from retail terrorism in the fact that wholesale terrorism is large-scale as you said, however, it is employed by the state. This type of terrorism can include killings, torture and invasion on a large scale. In addition, Friedrichs (2010) indicates that wholesale terrorism is much costlier and produces a significantly larger amount of human suffering than retail terrorism. Retail terrorism on the other hand is employed by non-state actors. Generally, retail terrorism encompasses acts that include abductions

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