beheading http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/ en Battlefield Mass Headhunting: The Ottomans Compared to Modern Adherents http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/battlefield-mass-headhunting-ottomans-compared-modern-adherents <span>Battlefield Mass Headhunting: The Ottomans Compared to Modern Adherents</span> <span><span>SWJED</span></span> <span>Thu, 11/09/2017 - 2:19pm</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p> Recent analysis of the practice of decapitation by Islamist terrorists raises questions about the effectiveness of these horrific tactics in a modern world.</p> </div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/jrnl/art/battlefield-mass-headhunting-ottomans-compared-modern-adherents" rel="tag" title="Battlefield Mass Headhunting: The Ottomans Compared to Modern Adherents" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Battlefield Mass Headhunting: The Ottomans Compared to Modern Adherents</span></a></li><li class="comment-comments"><a href="/jrnl/art/battlefield-mass-headhunting-ottomans-compared-modern-adherents#comments" title="Jump to the first comment." hreflang="en">2 comments</a></li><li class="comment-new-comments"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1502/feed" class="hidden" title="Jump to the first new comment." data-history-node-last-comment-timestamp="1510423854" data-history-node-field-name="comment"></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Thu, 09 Nov 2017 19:19:55 +0000 SWJED 80032 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com