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Terrorism is a major threat to the United States, and all Americans are aware of the threat and the damage that can be inflicted by terrorist groups. Terrorists pledge to wage war with America, while America is at war with terrorists and their supporters. As this occurs, the United States works to defend itself against terrorists and to protect its citizens. Terrorism, then, in its many facets is worthy of in-depth study.

It is integral to the security of the country to study terrorism. The emphasis to study terrorism should surprise few people in a post-9/11 United States. By studying terrorism, the United States will keep its country and its future safe from harm, while U.S. citizens will be able to live without fear or terror that an attack might occur. To underscore the importance of studying terrorism in a post-911 world one only has to look to the pre-9/11 world. In doing so, one can see the dearth of knowledge of terrorism, and the disastrous outcome that that dearth of knowledge led to on a September day in 2001.

In 1999 the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress sponsored a report titled "The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism." In the report, it was noted that "the individual psychology of political and religious terrorism has been largely ignored." That statement is enormous, and, as history has shown, likely played a role in the terrorism problem the country faces today. Indeed, the terrorist factions who have claimed war against the U.S. have explicitly done so for political and religious reasons. Regular and serious study into the complex dynamics of terrorism may have played an important preventative role at the time against future terrorist attacks.