When considering its significant impact on the world the history of terrorism is relatively brief. That being said, as it propagates across the globe its brevity is shrinking and it continues to find its way into news headlines and into the history books. It’s a safe notion to associate the beginning of radical terrorism to the 1980s. The 1980s was a time period where terrorist adopted many of their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) that are still used today. 1983 was a particularly active year for conventional terrorist attracts on the United States. The U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut and the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait were bombed using vehicle borne IEDs (VBIED), resulting in the deaths of nearly 300 U.S citizens (Eland, 1998,
