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Anatomy of a Terrorist Attack: The Cu Chi Mess Hall Incident

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Joseph V. Henderson
Joseph V. Henderson
Affiliation:
Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A.
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For most civilized people terrorism is hard to imagine. Scenarios are concrete descriptions of events, case studies that help the imagination. Statistics inform, but are abstract. Planners and strategists, be they Colonels, Captains or Chiefs, need good scenarios, and they need to think and talk about them. Those who rely exclusively on statistics, to use a phrase popular in another decade or on another coast, don't get their consciousnesses raised; terrorism remains beyond the imagination.

Type
Papers from the Second International Assembly on Emergency Medical Services: Focus on Disasters, Baltimore, Maryland, April, 1986
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 1-4: Contributions from the Second International Assembly on Emergency Medical Services-Focus on Disaster, Baltimore, Md., USA, 1986 and 4th World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine Brighton, U.K. June, 1985 , 1986 , pp. 69 - 73
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1986

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