Terror attacks increase, says US "The number of attacks in Iraq nearly doubled to 6,630, accounting for 45% of the global total. Iraq alone accounts for nearly two-thirds of all terrorism-related deaths last year. " Intern(ation)al disintegration "A ghost is stalking the corridors of general staffs and defense departments all over the developed world-the fear of military impotence, even irrelevance." (Martin van Crefeld, the transformation of war, 1992)