Terrorism is anti civillian warfare. Planting sabatoge devices that kill and maim innocent people is actually terrorism&#x2F; Is it just not as effective because it maims more than it it kills? I don&#x27;t get it with these pedantic aruments.<p>eg lets say we load a bunch of shrapnel into a tree so it maims or permanenly injures whoever the next logger is...tha is basically the same thing as lobbing hand grenades into the public square. the attacks are meant to target random people, caught unawares, in a way that conveys a persistant threat of continued, scalable future action.<p>Now lets take some other shady randome violence like the KGB assinating a civilian in London with radioactive isotopes in his tea. Is that terrorism? No, its a specific threat carried out in a limited capacity against a designated target. It might be criminal or a war crime or wahatever bad thing describes it, but its not &quot;anti civilian warfare&quot;, in the same way that not all war casualties are &quot;war crimes&quot; in the normal usage.