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1. High Yields – Financially a. Terrorism offers a relatively inexpensive method of making a point for insurgent groups who lack the finances, personnel, or armaments to win against a nation's army on a conventional battlefield. Terrorist tactics also can provide small non-"superpower" nations a low-cost way to wage war, whether overtly or clandestinely, on a hostile state whose resources provide a serious obstacle to waging a full-scale war.
2. High Yields - Politically b. For states, particularly those that can successfully provide and hide clandestine support for terrorist groups, the political cost can be quite low as long as such support remains secret. On the other hand, profit in arms sales might become temptingly high.
3. Low Cost - Financially c. States that are arms dealers to terrorists can usually profit quite handsomely, with little or no political, military, or economic impact. Sometimes being caught results in the recall of a couple of ambassadors, but seldom is there any impact on diplomatic or trade relations.
4. Low Cost – Politically and Financially d. For dissenters who decide to use terrorism as a political weapon, the political currency can be very large in value. This is especially true when the targeted government's reactions are not supported by citizens in the middle and could lead to a regime being ousted from power. Major concessions can then be "bought" when a successful terrorist incident shocks the populace too much.
5. Low Cost - Politically e. The costs of financing terrorist operations can be much less than those of maintaining a fully-equipped and trained army. And the individuals carrying out these operations are not subjected to as much risk as there would be in conventional warfare. In a successful terrorist operation, the rewards are often very big. For a failed operation, the losses are generally small, unless the failure can be traced back to a state sponsor. The finding of these linkages has become very costly in financial and more importantly political terms.

Answer 1

1. *c
2. *d
3. *a
4. *e
5. *b