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<p>Terrorism is not a new phenomenon to the world, yet it remains difficult to define  and to counter. Countering terrorism requires several measures that must be taken at the  same time. Counterterrorism strategies of most countries depend on military measures.  However, those strategies should also focus on nonlethal measures, such as economic,  political, and social measures. The psychological dimensions of terrorism must be  understood, evaluated, and used in countering terrorism. This study suggests that  psychological operations, as nonlethal military operations, can be used to influence  individuals not to join terrorist organizations and to facilitate defections from terrorist  organizations.  However, in order to implement effective psychological operations, one has to  have appropriate intelligence about terrorist organizations. Examining terrorist  organizations helps us to identify their vulnerabilities and obtain this intelligence. This  thesis concludes that terrorists' motivations, terrorist organizations' radicalization,  recruitment, and conversion processes, ideology, goals, strategies, and general structure  form the intelligence requirement for psychological operations in counterterrorism. This  study also examines the terrorist organization, al-Qaeda, to show its vulnerabilities.
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<br>Subjects: Terrorism; Psychological aspects; United States; Prevention; Intelligence service</div>
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Dortbudak, Mehmet Fevzi</div>
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